Comments on: Learning to Love Linux? http://encephalosponge.com/2008/10/16/learning-to-love-linux/ Soaking Up Life Sun, 13 May 2012 18:59:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Abhijit Nadgouda http://encephalosponge.com/2008/10/16/learning-to-love-linux/#comment-168 Abhijit Nadgouda Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:50:40 +0000 http://encephalosponge.com/?p=352#comment-168 Jonathan, thanks for extending the discussion. I completely agree with you that we cannot expect consumers to learn Linux by themselves, hence the argument for education. By education, I meant more than awareness, including information about how to do certain tasks in Linux, and helping them migrate from Windows. I am not so sure about GUIfying everything. Command line has been proven to be more fruitful in some scenarios. I think this is one case where Linux will be different form Windows, where it might offer a more productive combination of GUI + command line, instead of just GUI. Whichever way it goes, I think this is primetime for the Linux community to help the consumers understand why use Linux and learn it. Jonathan, thanks for extending the discussion. I completely agree with you that we cannot expect consumers to learn Linux by themselves, hence the argument for education. By education, I meant more than awareness, including information about how to do certain tasks in Linux, and helping them migrate from Windows.

I am not so sure about GUIfying everything. Command line has been proven to be more fruitful in some scenarios. I think this is one case where Linux will be different form Windows, where it might offer a more productive combination of GUI + command line, instead of just GUI.

Whichever way it goes, I think this is primetime for the Linux community to help the consumers understand why use Linux and learn it.

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