On 04/03/2019 15:09, Rob Morley wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 07:07:38 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> Ah. The GUI fails to be the labour saver its promoted as.
>
> Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
>>
>> It didnt occur to me that amyone would use a windows machine to copy
>> Pi files.
>
> Some Pi users don't have any other Linux machines.
> It didn't occur to me that a Linux user would use a GUI to perform
> bulk manipulations when we have such good CLI tools.  Even if you're
> not familiar with a particular tool it can be quicker to search a man
> page than using a graphical file manager to do something repetitive
> or needing special flags.
>>
>> Not the least because it doesnt understand EXT4 file systems.
>>
> Fairly sure he means a Raspbian or other Linux desktop rather than a
> Windows one (although you can get extfs drivers for Windows).
>
You can, but its a lot easier to boot a live linux DVD and use the
command line tools.

My first experience of booting a headless Pi was in fact so trivially
easy...even down to getting it on the wifi..because linux has all the
tools needed.




--
Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05