Star The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?
Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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RE: Excellent article
by Dave Poirier on Tue 9th Mar 2004 04:44 UTC

Richard: you should try the Ion window manager, its entirely keyboard driven and quite frankly, boosts multiple terminal manipulation a few times over.

I've been using Ion as my main window manager for well over a year now, there's no way I'm ever switching back to an overlapping window system.