[Tfug] Gnome usage

[Zack Breckenridge]

> It also is a big win in those times when the system won't boot to
> multiuser, won't mount /usr/lib, etc. -- and you are *stuck* with
> command line.

I would definitely agree having a strong knowledge of the command line is a
great thing in general, but I feel that those who don't are probably  put
off by things like simple tiling window managers because of the requisite
use of the command line they entail.

I think there needs to be some level of advocacy of this type of software
for day-to-day simple use, else bad user interfaces will persist.

It's amazing how many (even technical) people can't stand a plain GUI and
especially can't stand navigating the filesystem from the command line.
Personally I find it much easier than a mouse 90% of the time.

Zack
On Mar 23, 2014 2:11 PM, "Bexley Hall" <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Zack, Erich,
>
> On 3/23/2014 1:55 AM, Zack Breckenridge wrote:
>
>> I say it's not worth the hassle if you have to pull in all the
>> dependencies
>> manually. I usually keep Gnome installed if it's there by default, or else
>> never install it, and use a "light weight" tiling window manager like dwm.
>>
>
> +1
>
> I'm a big fan of a really *sparse* desktop.  I'm there to do work, not
> look at slick wallpaper et ilk.  I prefer the uwm derivatives -- twm,
> etc. and just bind the most common commands to menu entries.  The rest
> I hammer out on the keyboard (as I spend most of my time writing
> code/documentation, having to grab the mouse for damn near *anything*
> is a needless complication -- keys leaving the keyboard means there is
> a definite dip in "output".
>
>  I'm not a big fan of complex GUIs anyway as I believe they tend to get in
>> the way more than they help. Although this requires more CLI knowledge, I
>> don't believe you have to be a command line super user to do basic tasks
>> like watch movies (mplayer /path/to/movie).
>>
>
> I think it depends on what you expect from the machine.  I tend to keep
> half a dozen or more xterms open (and their offspring) and use the
> mouse primarily to shift focus.  But, I spend most of my time working
> with text so being keyboard-centric makes sense (to me, YMMV).
>
> It also is a big win in those times when the system won't boot to
> multiuser, won't mount /usr/lib, etc. -- and you are *stuck* with
> command line.  Are your man pages accessible from the root partition?
> What do you do when /usr/{share,lib} isn't (yet) available?
>
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