Apple vs. Dell ... Quote:GUI is just a mean to navigate system functionality. If more people like using Linux but only sticking with GUI ...

Seablade · 06-10-2009, 10:19 AM

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GUI is just a mean to navigate system functionality. If more people like using Linux but only sticking with GUI, it is fine. But if one needs to learn the nuts and bolts, then yes command lines are good to dig in deeper, same thing with Windows, OS X.

Well, to be honest I am not certain how much I would say that about Windows anymore, having been setting up a small basic multi-machine and multi-user environment with some specific requirements over the past couple of days. This isn't to say that the GUI is the bomb in windows, more to say that their command prompt (command.com) is that bad in comparison to *nix commandlines.

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qhn · 06-11-2009, 12:59 AM

Windows does have a good repertoire on the command lines, if one wants to play with batch, shell etc ...

Example in XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

cheers ...

Seablade · 06-11-2009, 01:10 AM

Give me grep (I see findstr at least, never used that one) and sed... And decent tab auto completion... man pages... yea this could go on for a bit

Admitedly it has bee a LONG time (DOS) since i dealt with the commandline in MS environments, but going through that list I am not seeing to much I missed.

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06-11-2009, 12:59 AM	#17
qhn Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 20,059 Reviews: 8 Benchmarks: 18 Credits: 54,634	Windows does have a good repertoire on the command lines, if one wants to play with batch, shell etc ... Example in XP: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true cheers ... __________________ m6805@3700; SZ71WN/C ; Macbook 2ghz/4gig/250gb/superdrive; 7811FX are u Folding@Home? - Firefox Beta - MediaPortal "the" Media Centre/HTPC!

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Seablade Dont Ask Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Somewhere in the US Posts: 3,592 Credits: 51,095	Give me grep (I see findstr at least, never used that one) and sed... And decent tab auto completion... man pages... yea this could go on for a bit Admitedly it has bee a LONG time (DOS) since i dealt with the commandline in MS environments, but going through that list I am not seeing to much I missed. Seablade Last edited by Seablade; 06-11-2009 at 01:15 AM.

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