Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:54 pm, Khepri wrote:
>
>>But for some reason, my approaching Linux through
>>a GUI like K or Gnome seemed to confuse me more
>>that comming at it from the command-line. It
>>"makes" sense" to me from the command line whereas
>>I find the GUI confusing...especially as it seems
>>every distros GUI to the same files is different.
>
>
> I know what you mean Chris. I too have a had time mapping GUI tools to Linux
> configuration. To this day, my Linux configuration tool of choice is VI. I
> think your GUI confusion makes sense. Linux's basic functionalities are
> mapped to both by the C libraries and by the commands (and by Perl
> functions). I've seen a much less one to one mapping from GUI tools to Linux
> functionalities.
>
I do pretty much all configuration using vim in an xterm window on my
desktop system. I probably use bash and the GUI almost equally. The
one major caveat is that, generally speaking, I'm of the opinion that
GUI configuration should, for the most part, be managed through good GUI
tools. This largely centers around such concerns as being able to
preview changes before committing them, and similar matters.
I guess that I do all the really important stuff from the shell, though,
and use vim as my configuration utility.
-- Chad
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