Invisible escreveu:
> The problem is, Unix has _always_ been designed around the idea that 
> everything is a text file and that's how you configure the entire 
> system. Sure, these days we have pretty front ends that atempt to hide 
> all the complexity. But as soon as you need to edit something there 
> isn't a front-end for, or the text file contains some setting that the 
> fancy front-end doesn't comprehend... suddenly you need to know how all 
> this stuff works again.
> 
> Windows, on the other hand, has always been designed around the idea 
> that the user doesn't know anything about computers and needs to be 
> shielded from anything more complicated than a lightswitch. Which is 
> sometimes quite frustrating, in a different way...

What that really means is that there are GUIs for all the n00b-level 
options and if there isn't, the Windows n00b will have to mess around 
with the arcane registry or RTFM for the first time in his life.

I like configuration files better than GUIs for no other reason that I 
can simply grep it for whatever I'm looking for or remotely related -- 
direct to the point.  In GUIs I have to go through a multitude of 
recursive menus or tabs hidden well underneath other options etc...

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