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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Having grown up with Unix, DOS and the command line, which are the underpinnings of Windows and OSx I am amazed at the level of apathy people have about PC's these days. They don't even know what folders, paths, shells and command lines are.
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So true. My first Internet account was a Unix shell, and back then the Internet was email and Usenet. *waves cane* These days Linux has become so GUI-fied and user-friendly that even my aforementioned luddite sister uses Ubuntu quite easily. She inherited my old laptop with Ubuntu on it and she only rarely needs tech support from me. I have people with Linux systems in my office that only use the terminal for telnetting to devices (networking company). They do everything else through the Gnome GUI tools. I think this is good for its future as a consumer OS, but I think it gives you a greater understanding of the systems when you interact with the configurations more directly.