[Ti] OSX Advice (long)

[Chris Olson]

RFD wrote:
> I'm quite sure you are very, very good at what you do and your obvious
> knowledge of the UNIX underpinnings of OS X is impressive, but you do this
> marvelous OS and platform a disservice when you don't try to exhaust all the
> avenues of familiarity first.

This is an interesting topic.  For me, the familiarity of OS X *is* the 
command line.  If OS X just had a GUI I wouldn't be using it.  There are 
thousands of OS X users who have migrated here from unix or linux 
desktop environments, and almost universally, former *nix desktop users 
will tell you they love the GUI features of OS X that Just Work(tm). 
The other group, which like you say is probably the majority, has 
migrated to OS X from previous non-command line versions of Mac OS. 
When I first started using OS X, the GUI was as foreign to me as the 
command line is to former OS 9 users.  Over time, I have learned to use 
the GUI features, however, and am just learning that there are many good 
OS X GUI front-ends to the traditional unix tools that make them easier 
to use.
-- 
Chris Olson
Network Administrator
AST Communications,  Inc.
Barron,  WI   USA