-=> RUSSELL TIEDT wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 RT>> Hang around a bit, and you will soon realize Maurices loves, ie.
 RT>> the console, getting less to do more (minimalisam), and
 RT>> Slackware. Not necessarilly in that order either.

 AA> I like the console too, and run Slackware 10. My computer illiterate
 AA> girlfriend actually let me put Slackware on her computer a few months
 AA> ago; she of course only uses KDE and not the console.

 RT> Woman .... :-)

She likes it; she even noticed the speed improvement before I did.

 AA> Except I wish I could use the mouse more from the console, and that
 AA> it
 AA> would freeze up for no reason, and I wish I'd get error messages that
 AA> made me feel like it was talking to me like, "agetty has performed an
 AA> illegal operation and will be shut down." or "Linux has
encountered a
 AA> problem. We recommend restarted. We apologize for any inconvenience."

 RT> My experience is it is usually much faster to use the keyboard, but ...
 

Me too. I rarely use a GUI anymore.

VBG.. Is that very big grin?
 
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