Ubuntu's success

[Derek Broughton]

Tristan Wibberley wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> there's still a lot of
>> the "if it isn't done with a CLI it isn't worth doing" attitude.
> 
> 
> Two sentiments I would go along with are: "If it can't be done easily
> with a CLI, you shouldn't rely on it", and "If it can't be done easily
> with a CLI, your users can't rely on it - so its a bug". 

Absolutely.  I _love_ GUIs, and think if it's worth doing, it's worth
creating a good GUI for it.  But I still learn the CLI versions, and as
I've explained here before, I'll always use the CLI for giving examples on
the newsgroups.  

> Oh yeah, a third: "If it isn't both documented and discoverable, your
> new users can't use it"

?  I'm not sure how that relates to the CLI/GUI debate :-)  It's 100%
correct, though.
-- 
derek