Jason White wrote:
Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
On 26.11.11 12:40, Jeremy Visser wrote:
Thus spake Erik Christiansen:
On 25.11.11 20:38, Russell Coker wrote:
It's Debian. I just put the ip and route commands on "up" lines in /etc/network/interfaces.
That sounds easier¹ than MSWindows.
Having a point-and-drool GUI interface to do the job doesn’t count as being easy? Sheesh.
This old dog finds them hard to learn, mostly because they are difficult to navigate (I suppose anything is, the first time.) There doesn't seem to be anything to hold onto to remember the fix for next time, as compared to a command line invocation, which does stick. Or can succinctly be recorded in extracranial memory, for when the wetware starts showing bad blocks, with age.
It's the same for me, even when the GUI is accessible non-visually: I just find language easier to remember, faster to type and when I don't know/can't remember, searching a manual page or configuration file is usually fast enough.
A friend of mine once said: I didn't spend years of primary school learning to read and write, simply to go through life interacting with devices by pointing and grunting like a caveman.