From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > Also, running a command line through a GUI terminal emulator lets you take   
   > advantage of cut/copy/paste between windows, which is a feature not   
   > available on a pure-command-line system.   
      
   The command line is like language.  The GUI is like shopping.   
      
   Turns out, lots of my highly educated friends aren't all that good   
   with language. :-o   
      
   A windowing system is not in itself what most people mean by GUI and   
   is, yes, a huge leap forward over plain command-line terminals.   
      
   I do use a GUI browser and, occasionally, a GUI image editing device.   
   I can imagine that audio/video editing my work best in a full GUI.   
      
   But my default is a simple window manager (twm) on top of X with   
   numerous xterms open or iconified, some running things like dmesg -w,   
   one with root access etc.   
      
   I took one look, long ago, at Windows 95 and moved straight to Linux.   
   Took one look at KDE (shopping) and found twm.   
      
   FWIW,   
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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