Once you’ve settled into using Linux on the desktop you may be interested in how you can start doing things a little more productively, or writing short scripts to do away with some of the more repetitive tasks. Theres no getting away from the fact that a GUI can be limiting for some tasks. Linux Command offers a useful introduction to the Linux shell. The guide takes you through file management and permissions, job control and I/O redirection.
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are helpful for many tasks, but they are not good for all tasks. I have long felt that most computers today do not use electricity. They instead seem to be powered by the “pumping” motion of the mouse! Computers were supposed to free us from manual labor, but how many times have you performed some task you felt sure the computer should be able to do? You ended up doing the work by tediously working the mouse. Pointing and clicking, pointing and clicking.
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