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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, baldwin linguas
<baldwinlinguas@gmail.com> wrote:

You really, really make a great point.
And, in fact, that's why I don't use all the gui stuff, dumped
KDE and gnome and other eye-candy bloat years ago, and learned to use the
CLI.
(let's just call it, "for efficiency's sake")
But, you know, it does make it "easier" for the new kids
out there in pointy-clicky land, if you have the patience to
make the video, and the glossy, full-color manuals.
I think that was Ubuntu's life purpose, or something...
To tack on bloat and eye-candy so the new kids could get their
feet wet.
Ubuntu: The Kiddy Pool of the Great Gnu/Linux Ocean!

;)


Maybe we should just tell them, "Stick with Windows until you grow up."

:-)

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