Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3302
Tim Murray
Glad you broke this out of that thread. It's approaching 1000 posts.
Snit I'm not Eric but the one example that I always find myself doing is: find . -name 'foo' -print I suppose there's a graphical search utility somewhere in Linux but...
Yes but with a caveat. Overall this is true. But for new and average users the difference is is much, much larger than for experienced power users.
I'll use 'vi' as an example of the CLI because it's basically what it is. Most times I feel as if I have no idea what most of the vi commands are. I simply think and my fingers auto-magically type ':wq' for me. (Hey... I must at least know that command.)
Sure. I am having a similar discussion in another thread. A well designed GUI is far, far more discoverable, easier to remember how to use, and clearly fits the idea of ease-of-use...
I think the CLI is the same way. People have repeated the same command so many times where it's simply drilled in to their brain.
For commonly used command that people have been running over and over for years the CLI is a more "efficient" way of getting things done. But if you want to do something like configure a wireless card for the first time (first time ever.. first time this year, etc.) then good luck finding, de-ciphering and using the CLI version of the tools to do it. It is MUCH easier to bring up a GUI, get it done then return to your vi editing session.
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning
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