Linked by David Adams on Fri 5th Aug 2005 17:38 UTC, submitted by Mark Brunelli
Bill Weinberg, OSDL Linux evangelist and speaker at next week's LinuxWorld conference, discusses the state of Linux adoption and its ongoing rivalry with Windows.
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> Going through the menus and guessing what action does
> what take as much time as writing
> command --help
Sorry, but this is a poor example. In a good GUI, pointing at a menu item and pressing the "help" key does the same (yes, a GUI can be coupled with a keyboard - and you could also imagine left-click for selecting, right-click for help or similar things).
> GUI is nice for manual work by people that don't type
> and read fast.
Then ask a secretary. She'll probably be able to read and type fast. Would she prefer the GUI or the CLI?
The key point is not reading and typing. It's about remembering the commmands and (sometimes very cryptic) special-character sequences to perform some action. Spatial and visual processing in the human mind has developed much better for such tasks.
> But it is a disaster for automated work.
> And a large part of an administrator's work is
> automating tasks to prevent them from becoming a
> burden on his future work.
Of course the GUI is a disaster for automated work. Automated work means *programming* the computer to do something without your intervention. The GUI isn't meant for programming, only for user intervention. It is designed with the fact in mind that programming is done with programming languages, and that programming languages and user interfaces are NOT the same.
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