Re: Solaris 10 advantages and drawbacks

From: Logan Shaw (lshaw-usenet_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 09/23/05 

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:03:30 GMT

Drazen Kacar wrote:
> Well, you can shoot yourself in the foot with GUI just as nicely as with
> CLI. People who are not comfortable with CLI tend to be helpless in these
> kinds of situations, but that's just people.

That's one of the chief advantages of a CLI over a GUI: people who are
truly clueless are more likely to give up and walk away before they mess
things up too badly.

I'm partially joking, but I'm also serious. The CLI requires you to read
some documentation in order to learn the syntax. Without knowing the
syntax, you generally can't make anything (good or bad) happen. Hopefully
while reading the documentation to pick up the syntax you will stumble
on some other information and actually learn something as well. And as
crazy as this sounds, people tend to be able to manage systems better if
they have a good internal mental model of how the system works.

   - Logan

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