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A regular user should never have to go to the command line to do anything, but I can't seem to avoid that with Linux.

• ricree 17y ago
  Out of curiosity, what do you find yourself having to use the command line for? I tend to use it out of preference, but I can't offhand think of any "regular" tasks I do that would require it. Some more obscure bits of troubleshooting might occasionally require it. But even there the gui options seem to have almost everything covered unless you start going a lot deeper than any regular user will care to.
  • samd 17y ago
    It was during troubleshooting, I couldn't get my dual monitor configuration to save unless I launched the config menu as sudo from the command line. Of course it didn't tell me this was the problem either.
    • gloob 17y ago
      A regular user doesn't have dual monitors, though. That said, I've had some issues with previous versions of Ubuntu that took some mucking around to fix, especially with sound and occasionally with wireless (though the latter has always worked fine on my laptops).
      • ricree 17y ago
        I have as well, though in my experience a lot of those issues have been fixed. Especially with sound, I haven't seen much in the way of problems since 9.10 shipped with a kernel that ran pulseAudio acceptably.
      • andrewvc 17y ago
        Regular users? No. Gamers, Graphic Artists, People who work with anything involving large amounts of on screen data, yes. None of these people should have to know how to use the CLI just to get two monitors working. I had the same problem with dual monitors for the record.
• jared314 17y ago
  With a common object model, like pyshell or powershell, improved autocomplete, and syntax highlighting, the command line might not be such a bad thing. Although, I would stop at that point to prevent an eclipse.
  • swombat 17y ago
    Command lines are great things... for power users. Requiring the average user to even know what a command prompt is is the kiss of death.