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- Nouman6, on 08/16/2008, -0/+41Petition for no more multi-paged lists?
Everything can fit on one page, I won't mind scrolling :) - MasterTroll, on 08/16/2008, -1/+24Not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.
- djphatjive, on 08/16/2008, -0/+21Sweet, graphical tools with no screenshots!
- theaceoffire, on 08/16/2008, -0/+14Lets make it a multi-page petition!
- werries, on 08/16/2008, -0/+12for you. linux is about choice. this isn't a competition.
- stealthc, on 08/16/2008, -0/+9Please click next to read the rest of this article which could have fit entirely on one page...
- digginamish, on 08/16/2008, -0/+8Actually, to use "graphical tools" in the title and neglect to include any screenshots is beautiful irony; it almost feels like an Aprils Fools article.
- Epistaxis, on 08/16/2008, -1/+9This is ridiculous. Someone needs a howto to tell them that if they want to analyze their disk usage, they should start the Disk Usage Analyzer? A broad survey of all the kinds of things you can do without the "Command Line Interface (CLI)" might be interesting and help disprove the bad reputation. But this is just an instruction guide to only the most self-explanatory features of two applications.
- sayoshinn, on 08/16/2008, -5/+11Boobies.
Why? Because that word is more interesting than that article by a mile - Wargasmic, on 08/16/2008, -1/+7Lame.
- Balla79, on 08/16/2008, -1/+7Maybe he didn't find any GUI tools for making screenshots?
- srg13, on 08/16/2008, -0/+6The point is that that you can do things with GUIs, but the command line is a really efficient, and - for many tasks - superior tool than any graphical interface.
- Toshibi, on 08/16/2008, -1/+6Or, they can just open up Nautilus, click on the partition, and it will show disk usage. In a human meaningful way.
- JBmtk, on 08/16/2008, -5/+9I don't see the big deal in actually using the command prompt...just learn the commands and you are golden. If you can't remember a few words, then setup a bookmark that has a nice list. If you can't do that, stick with the crappy windows.
- fatas, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4agree what a ***** up article
- Chris_F, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4WTF. Things you can do with ANY distribution of linux, and probably a BSD based unix as well. Stop using the name "Ubuntu" as a universal equivalent for the term GNULinux! I wish I could reach threw my monitor and smack a person they say "Great new thing you can do with Ubuntu!" Unless this is something that has been developed by the Ubuntu dev team specifically for Ubuntu, then leave it out. Honestly.
- krc1, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Click on the pdf link just to the right of the article title.
- fuckingusername, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3 talk about bad web design
- werries, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3use gksu.
just be very afraid of the trash bin. - zcreem, on 08/16/2008, -0/+34 pages to say that, blog spam.
- bismarck73, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3I was thinking the same thing but they do that for the sole reason of displaying more ads.
- bitterbug, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4I like using the command prompt for some things, but if I can quickly show a friend or family member how to do something in Linux in Windows it's a win for me (time) and a win for them (less frustration).
Remember that the average computer user has trouble with Windows regularly, and doesn't have enough knowledge to even operate antivirus and drive cleaning tools effectively.
You can't expect them to function at the command line, any more than I expect someone to be able to rebuild a transmission just because they bought a car. - arjie, on 08/16/2008, -2/+5That's because you are! ;)
- chrysalis, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2I agree. Just as if tools like rsync didn't exist without Ubuntu!
Writing "Ubuntu" for things you can do with any other linux distro or other OS brain washing. Seriously, it makes me feel as if Ubuntu was a sect. This is lousy marketing, and it is a total lack of respect to other distributions/OS. - rbk303, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2headings can be useful too
bullet points
bold type
whatever sets off your ideas - aywwts4, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Or System Monitor / File Systems.
Every single partition with a nice bar graph, this is just a stupid article, like a command line hit piece, the GUI equivalent wasn't exactly some secret code.
Now the GUI grub editor and the (not so good) GUI for Samba, those are command line replacements. - Neverwolf, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3More ads, more money. Sad but it's true.
- youannoyme, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Tsk Tsk... On Fedora at least, when doing something that requires root powers, the nice and intuitive gui's just prompt you for the password... Might want to know whats out there before you make blanket statements
- shadowman99, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2There was nothing in this article that was specifically Ubuntu. I have every one of tools mentioned in the story on my Fedora 9 box by default.
- johndavidjack, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2webmin is the GUI for people that don't like CLI
- funklor, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3If you find the information df -h outputs confusing you should be researching birth control tools instead.
- eatbeefjerky, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3Then perhaps Linux isn't for you. It's hard to accept, we know.
- digginamish, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Look at the search stats and you will see that Ubuntu gets far more traffic than any other distro or the word linux. The guy is writing an article to get hits, so the title is all about marketing. Makes perfect sense.
- wampl3r, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Conditioner is better...
- AsusMobo, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3Its not that there are not graphical apps, the command line is just faster. You can do more, faster, with a shell command one liner than you can do with a GUI tool. When you work in a environment where you need to be fast, you can't be clicking through GUIs all day.
- nyx210, on 08/16/2008, -2/+3Pussies... Learn to use the CLI. You can do a lot more with it and It's faster in many cases
- johndavidjack, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2I didn't get what was so hard about either of those two commands on the CLI.
Is the average user (that doesn't know CLI) even going to care about incrementally backing up their data? They won't even know what the ***** rsync is, or that their is a GUI replacement.
There are plenty of GUI replacements for CLI commands ( networking, services, printing, users/groups, etc), but these two GUIs aren't as useful to the average user that doesn't know CLI.
I mean, this author could write a 100 page article about webmin... - Mark2600, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1"Definate yes!!!"
And the CLI is always faster. - youannoyme, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2How mind bending. I agree with both of you!
That said...Ubunto annoys the hell out of me. More because of the hype and its users than any pro's or con's of the actual distro... - johndavidjack, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1***** Fedora.
Open Solaris... - Commodore13, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Have you tried going to a help forum with your problems?
- javaroast, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1LAME article. I was so hopeful because the topic is really promising. But.. no screenshots, a paragraph a page and awkward language makes this article one to skip. Someone go write an article on this topic that is more complete and with screenshots and I'll happily give you a digg.
- aspade, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1Granted, I find that really annoying too.. but someone's got to pay bills... like we all do...
- Lhandroval, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1I love being proven wrong. :D *investigates*
- DerekDowns, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1is there an app that shows where the start button is? :b
- lead2thehead, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1I don't really have a preference. This was a social experiment to see if I'd get buried for liking a distribution other than Ubuntu. And sure enough, I was right. Diggers are so predictable.
- nrox653, on 08/16/2008, -0/+0Agreed. They should also work on their spelling, or in this case, sbeell1ng.
- nrox653, on 08/16/2008, -0/+0Lame and boring. Quote:
"Delete on destination" will delete, on the destination folder, any files and folders that have been deleted from the source folder.
We ***** know that, genius. - johndavidjack, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1I talk ***** about Ubuntu on purpose for that reason, even though I don't mind it.
- igor8755, on 08/16/2008, -1/+0thanks. cool progs (=
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