Re: [ros-kernel] Forward: "ReactOS is too limited"

[Stuart U. <man...@ki...>]

Koert van der Veer wrote:

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>>After looking through reams of unhelpful (and sometimes contradictory)
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>Linux
>
>>FAQs and other DOCs, I ventured onto some Linux forums where I was told to
>>"RTFM" (by people with 5 inch thick glasses, a permanent hunch and acne
>>
>that
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>>would make a leopard feel jealous, I have no doubt).
>>
>>The Linux command line is unhelpful, unfriendly and unforgiving. Maybe it
>>was useful in the past (to save disk space, processor power, memory, etc.)
>>to use an OS with a minimal amount of messages, but times have changed. We
>>live in an age where the minimum spec processor you can buy (at least in
>>
>the
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>>UK) is 1 GHz and systems come with 512MB RAM standard.
>>
>>Linux may be good as a web server. Apache is an excellent program, but
>>people will be able to run the win32 version on ReactOS soon so what
>>possible use will Linux have then? (except maybe as a firewall - wow!).
>>
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>You are exagerating here. For management tasks I prefer a commandline over a
>GUI. A commandline interface is usually easier to design, and is therefore
>often more informative. I really dislike using the mouse, and I feel I am
>forced to use it in a GUI.
>Linux is a perfect server-machine, though it has several disadvantages
>running it as a desktop OS. At home all my files are stored on my Debian
>server, which is also webserver, mail-server, filewall, router, etc... To
>work i use a windows machine. More and more often i find myself working on
>the server via Putty, because of it's wonderfull commandline interface...
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>What use does a webserver have, wasting it's precious processorcycles on
>maintaining a desktopwindow? I guess the only enviroment that justifies a
>GUI (or more specifict to win32, the GDI) is a desktop machine.
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I suppose it depends who you're targetting Reactos for.
What i'd like to see is Reactos having an option to the end user - Do 
you want the gdi installed/enabled or not? (So if your using reactos as 
a server, the cpu isn't being "hogged" by the gdi)

I find a gui quite useful when administering things. I can actually see 
whats going on rather than looking at text on a terminal (Though it 
really depends what thing you are administering/monitoring, and if 
you're some newbie or not).
Although i do find commandlines very powerful when i want to do 
something complicated, and the gui is essentially restricted and cannot 
work for me.

What i find hard is to actually use linux as a dekstop - I just don't 
get the same feeling, and i'm constantly thinking how will i run Windows 
Game X on it, or
Y program. I simply can't get used to it, and i keep reverting to using 
windows. I'd like to use linux, but i just can't get to grips with it.