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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Live CD
by GW on Tue 9th Mar 2004 06:21 UTC

"If I were to hold the trial now, I would probably recommend the Knoppix Linux live-CD so they could just "reboot into discussion mode"."

I'd recommend SLAX live-CD over Knoppix in this case, as SLAX defaults to a CLI, whereas Knoppix boots into a GUI unless you specifically stop it from doing so.