On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:23:49AM -0400, Randall Johnson II wrote:
> It will help non-believers, but it's preaching to the choir here. Most
> people who are going to switch and are familiar with Visio should be capable
> of getting by, in my humble opinion. Besides, it's only time till the
> typical predefined shapes are replaced with new shapes with shiner
> aqua/metal/emboss/gloss themes or ones that are photo-realistic. Now, if
> someone went from GUI back to CLI only for one year....that would be cool.
> Admin stuff is easy, but when you are bored there are only so many acii
> movies you can watch (know of any good sites for them).
You can turn any movie into an ASCII movie with aalib.
>
> Tangent Warning: Do any of you use Webmin or Usermin to help noobs out. Is
> it disaster waiting to happen. At first glance it doesn't seem any easier
> than editing the files (atleast on FreeBSD).
GUI is pretty much never easier than TUI. People are just used to clicky
buttons and the like, so something like Webmin makes them feel more
comfortable, even if actual ease of use (assuming equal familiarity with
each and equal comfort with GUI and TUI) doesn't change, or is greater
for a given TUI than its GUI counterpart.
-- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] C. Hoare: "Two ways of constructing software: (1) make it so simple that there are obviously no bugs, (2) make it so complicated that there are no obvious bugs. Making it simple is far more difficult."
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