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Oh! So 20+ hours of your life are worth $400? Man, you're expensive.
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20 x 15 = 300 € ($400). That's 20 hours of hard-earned cash lost to pulling hairs out of your head. Which you can start doing only if you know your way with computers in any case. By the way, I have never actually paid anything of my OS. Yes, I'm a stinker and proud of it.
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You being used to working with computers and doing little programming and such even dares to say that O.o
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Command-prompts isn't any more l77t than GUI. Both do the same thing: offer the user a way to interact with the computer. Of these two, GUI is the one which is more easily accessible by a wider variety of people, which is naturally a good thing. After all, OS shouldn't be visible otherwise than helping you to the programs that do the stuff you want.
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I suppose the only big problem with the commandline is that in many cases for Linux, it becomes a requirement.
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That's what I have been telling you. Linux is supposed to have a real GUI, but in reality you have to resort to the, hss!,
command-prompt the moment you want your soundcard working. Or anything that requires a driver or, worse,
compiling a source-code into a usable exec.
Thousand dollar question to all computer illiterate here: do you know how where to get the source-code of a (any) video-player, compile it, and get it to work with sounds, video, and subtitles? Knew you wouldn't.
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Linux is free. It doesn't cost you anything to try it out. And it really is getting better all the time.
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It's getting better in some ways, probably, but the problems it harbours are the same as ten years ago: poor usability and lack of support. Until those are solved, I don't see why people should go beyond trying out the live-DVD versions.