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On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:36:15 -0500

Thomas Vecchione  wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Andrew C

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> wrote:

>

> >

> > Command line isn't not n00b friendly, just merely a different way of

> > accessing applications and managing the system. Might sound stupidly

> > elitist and like 'the cancer that's killing linux audio', but you

> > can't expect to run and use a linux or any other unix based OS

> > without using the CLI once or twice IMHO. Whereas windows gives you

> > the ability to do everything with a mouse and a GUI, linux gives

> > you the choice of either using a GUI to run the app or launching it

> > via a terminal.

> >

> >

> OS X, a unix based OS, would tend to disagree with you.  And has done

> a fairly successful job doing so at that.  The majority of the time

> that it is easier to troubleshoot something on #ardour-osx by using

> the console output, or using the terminal to enter a command, I have

> to tell users exactly how to get to the terminal, many of them don't

> even know it exists.

>

>          Seablade

I think we're leaving the "how linux audio could be more user friendly"

topic in favor of the "how linux could be more user friendly" - which

is not bad, just saying.
I allready stated more or less this, but I'd like to say it again, in

other words. If I wanted a user friendly OS, I wouldn't be using linux,

but probably OSX. There's a monetary cost for that, but OTOH linux and

more in general open source software involves a larger "time" cost,

time spent reading documentation etc. There's a tradeoff there.
I think many people here, like me, prefer to invest time in open source

software rather than money AND time (though less) in closed source

software. 
The way I feel is that we really shouln't invest too much time and

energy with users who won't learn how to do such an easy thing as using

a terminal (just google "linux using terminal").
What does the community gain in having such people use linux?
cheers

renato 
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