Working with Linux on a PC 1617

Well, it depends. When I was running OS X 10.1 on a 400 MHz G3, I found that I stopped using keyboard navigation in the GUI, because all that jumping around was too slow -- there would be a delay when selecting something that way which screwed up the whole flow of it. It was easier just to use the mouse. But with 10.3 on a G5 (or anything else Apple sells these days), it's nice and snappy.

Actually, I find myself using the CLI a lot more for file management under Linux as well. I suspect the fact that I keep falling into this pattern because Linux GUI file managers just aren't really all that good. (I'm definitely not a fan of the whole browser-like file manager UI that GNOME and KDE borrowed from Windows).

Windows, of course, is the worst of both worlds -- bad GUI file manager and bad CLI.

What does it do instead? I know it can be set up to make suggestions, and to complete file names up to the point where they diverge, but those don't fully eliminate the problem.

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