Do You Prefer the Command Line or a GUI When Administering Your Linux Desktop?
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View Poll Results: Do You Prefer the Command Line or a GUI When Administering Your Linux Desktop
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Do You Prefer the Command Line or a GUI When Administering Your Linux Desktop?
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Note that we'll likely have a follow-up poll along the line of "Do You Prefer the Command Line or a GUI When Working in a Linux Desktop?", but I'd be interested in getting feedback on whether or not the distinction is large enough.
I prefer:
Command line for server setup and initial config of linux on a desktop.
Gui for all subsequent configuration so that the user can do it themselves.
I answered Gui to the question because I believe that most configuration after initial setup is done that way. However, I prefer command line otherwise.
Note that we'll likely have a follow-up poll along the line of "Do You Prefer the Command Line or a GUI When Working in a Linux Desktop?", but I'd be interested in getting feedback on whether or not the distinction is large enough.
--jeremy
good point. when administering (http server, ssh server, scp, ...) i'd prefer to script it...
when working on actual stuff (email, video-conferencing, web browsing) i prefer gui.
No preference. I do what I need to do under the medium I can best access things.
Desktop to me means just a general use system, not a server.
If I have a display environment and my distro provides widgets to view and control something like speaker volume, or WIFI choice, then I just use the UI widgets that are there.
If I need to do something like edit my bash_profile or change my user group configuration, then I use the command line.
While I prefer a GUI interface, I generally use lightweight desktops, like icewm, lxde or openbox, and find myself using the command line when I can't find the appropriate GUI.
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