Re: Xwindows


Hugo van der Kooij ()
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > What is the value of having a GUI to your Unix box?
>
> Its very hard to play quake on a text terminal.

Well. I guess one is better of without it. At least I am.

> Also all the usual things like software development, mail, wordprocessing and
> the like are so much nicer with a sensible GUI.

Well opinions differ in this matter. I prefer to read mail (text) as text
and not with some GUI. The same is true for writing code. I still find vi
the best thing to write code although I am not a programmer.

And wordprocessing is done bij sgmltools here. I write my documentation in
SGML. So I can make nice paper versions and online version without having
to change a bit.

Hugo.

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