Benton Lam wrote:
I would most certainly agree that Windows apps are completely suitable for an idiot. Sure, my dad could use IE and MS offcie, but when it comes down to important, OS core stuff, Linux tools shines. Try installing Windows on a computer that doesn't have the CD-ROM drivers loaded and you find yourself finding for text editors. It happened to my friend that called me to help. I don't bash Windows apps, but I hate the programming and business practices of the OS Windows itself. Those nice GUI apps sometimes held a danger. Scandisk killed my first harddrive, and it was lucky that we (yes my family's data) have the data on the second one and I was able to install Windows back on the ex-second harddrive. Then guess what? There's no sound and there's no graphics driver. At least I will have less pain doing that in SuSE where everything is in the CDs. I would not imagine how horrible for the WinDummies out there when Windows fails on them and they have to preserve their data. Fortunately I do have DOS experience so I was trying to salvage the stuff when the HD failed, but guess what? WinDummies won't be able to because they see the GUI everyday. Getting back to your HTML problem, it might seems horrible to do HTML in vi, but I was trying to finish an IT HTML project with BlueFish (GUI HTML coder, not like Frontpage), but it was betaware and it failed a couple of times. Vi did say my day despite that I only know a few commands (save, quit, quit without saving, insert and delete line) and I did get through it. I do wish I have something WYSIWYG in Linux, but when it comes down to functionality and versatility, Linux and Linux apps like vi and such shines so brightly that Win apps will burn from it.
My two cents.
Calyth
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