A favor with a common cause

[Brian Densmore]

When I want to create a floppy in Linux I use Konqueror
and drag what I want selected into the /dev/floppy location.
Then presto chango KDE asks me if I want to move, copy or link
and I say copy and automajically the floppy is created. I can also
right click on the floppy icon and format the disk, mount it,
unmount it, or open it. Soon I'm sure I'll be able to choose sing or 
dance too. I never use CLI for tasks that are just too mundane
or easy to do from the GUI. Why should I? It's faster to drag-n-drop
and click an ok button than it is to switch to a CLI and type
in the whole long command. The CLI is great to know, but when I build
furniture I don't go out and cut down a tree and process the wood into
properly dimensioned lumber first. I know how, just as I know how to
make logic gates from transistors, but you don't see me building electronic
devices from individual transistors. I use premade ICs for this type of
work. Granted it's important to know the basics and the barebones stuff,
but come on people, why torture ourselves and newbies trying to make them
use the CLI for everything under the sun when a perfectly usable GUI can do
it so much easier.
</CLI rant>

<dons asbestos suit>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay 
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