On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:00:56 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/8/2011 14:38, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Configuration files don't autogenerate other configuration programs.
> 
> Autoconf? :-)

Autoconf isn't really a configuration file.  It's a configuration file 
parser. ;)

>> Obviously you don't know many Linux users.  I know at least 5,000, and
>> many of them not only love and use the GUI, but tend to have religious
>> wars over which GUI is better.
> 
> I still giggle when I see someone using a gui in Linux to do things like
> find files. Just because I'm so used to the command line (and GUIs for
> Linux tend to suck horribly compared to something where it's the
> expected interface) that it looks silly to me.

Yeah, I do as well.  find or locate does the job just fine, and beagle 
and its successors are just resource pigs.

Though I find that the state of Linux GUIs is improving.  Certainly has 
since I started using it.

Jim

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