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This article ought to really make Windows users switch to Linux. I hardly ever use the command line on Windows anymore. DOS was pretty much done away with for the average Windows user with Windows 98. Maybe Linux will catch up some day.
Your post must be a troll, or you are an extraordinally clueless moron. Or both.
Why thank you for your enlightened response. Calling someone names is so much more intelligent than making a reasoned reply. I have tried numerous versions of Linux starting with Red Hat 5.0 which I installed for a class project. I have installed two or three versions of Mandrake Linux, a few versions of Red Hat Linux, TurboLinux, SuSE Linux, Ubuntu, and Xandros Linux since that first installation. I have also enjoyed running the live DSLinux CD.
But I always seem to go back to using some version of Windows because I don't have to learn a bunch of new commands. I learned DOS a long time ago. I still use DOS from time to time. But most of the time I prefer to use the graphical interface.
So I guess that makes me a Troll and a Moron. I thought calling someone a Moron ended in about the 6th grade. Which reminds me of the Redneck joke about the father and the son being in the same grade in elementary school. By the way, do you copy your son's homework??
But I always seem to go back to using some version of Windows because I don't have to learn a bunch of new commands. I learned DOS a long time ago. I still use DOS from time to time. But most of the time I prefer to use the graphical interface.
So I guess that makes me a Troll and a Moron. I thought calling someone a Moron ended in about the 6th grade. Which reminds me of the Redneck joke about the father and the son being in the same grade in elementary school. By the way, do you copy your son's homework??
The thing that I appreciate most is the command line. I do not like or trust powerful features being executed without an understanding of what is occurring. Using command line offers you so much more flexibility in performing various tasks that windows never could achieve without over complicating the matter.
Example: Finding all files owned by user dan across the whole machine and changing the security attributes. Or, only doing this same task from the current position in a tree to regress only 3 levels. Both case's being one line of command line. This is just an example of the flexibility that command line offers that a window environment would be hard pressed to replicate without increasing the complexity of it or number of steps required to perform same task. This same type of thing could be used for changing file names also. Just an example.
Shoot, even copying and painting is easier with command line.
By the way, I also use and like windows. But windows can not compete with command line utilities, not even close. It's not it's strong point.
Dan
Example: Finding all files owned by user dan across the whole machine and changing the security attributes. Or, only doing this same task from the current position in a tree to regress only 3 levels. Both case's being one line of command line. This is just an example of the flexibility that command line offers that a window environment would be hard pressed to replicate without increasing the complexity of it or number of steps required to perform same task. This same type of thing could be used for changing file names also. Just an example.
Shoot, even copying and painting is easier with command line.
By the way, I also use and like windows. But windows can not compete with command line utilities, not even close. It's not it's strong point.
Dan
Then, you should open the command prompt on your Windows box. All of the examples you gave are easily doable on the command line on Windows, too. 
You can also install Cygwin and have access to the same tools you use on your Unix box in Windows. You can install the Resource Kits (they're free to download from MS, they don't cost money anymore. Haven't since NT4) and gain even more power. Finally, you can use the new Monad shell or code stuff in Vbscript. Very easy to learn vbscript, and there isn't anything you can't do with it.
You can also install Cygwin and have access to the same tools you use on your Unix box in Windows. You can install the Resource Kits (they're free to download from MS, they don't cost money anymore. Haven't since NT4) and gain even more power. Finally, you can use the new Monad shell or code stuff in Vbscript. Very easy to learn vbscript, and there isn't anything you can't do with it.
But, after I posted what I did. I realized the command prompt offers command line. I do not have a good knowledge of dos/command prompt though.
I didn't know about the other things you listed, and I apologize for the miss post.
Dan
I didn't know about the other things you listed, and I apologize for the miss post.
Dan
I can only assume that you being a "PC Support" guy is just a cover because you speak like that average user you describe. The command line didn't die with Windows 95, it's just as important as it was when there was an underlying DOS system to Windows. Real tech guys know there's infinitely more to Windows than what you can click on.
I've been using custom prompts in bash for... decades?
and tab completion is in just about every shell I know of
and tab completion is in just about every shell I know of
How does the tab-completion compare to Bash? For example, with Bash tab-completion, I can tell it how to cycle through my sshhosts file, so I could type "ssh -> tab -> server1 -> tab -> server2" etc.
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