On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:48:06AM +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
They quite simply don't have the choice, so there isn't as much of a need to make it attractive for them
i disagree. if they get a bad first impression they will hate linux and be even harder to convince. even if they are forced to use it, it must be attractive, if they are to get a good impression and keep wanting to use linux more...
Students I've talked to who have been dissastisfied with the labs are ones who tried to do every file operation using some badly broken GUI file manager, when they could have used the command line to do it in less time than it took the file manager to load
to some people the commandline will never be attractive, and if there are good gui tools, don't withhold them just because you think the commandline is better anyways. (though i accept that there probably is simply no time for that in your particular situation) greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe (latvia) open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/