I am learning Linux again. I got sick of hiring Linux guys and decided it was time to (re)learn Fedora Core so I could do the work again myself.
I hate command line stuff these days. Yes I know, before you uber-geeks get all jihad on me, stop. I know, LINUX is better. I just hate typing. (insert line about irony here as you read this on blog). I would rather use a GUI.
It’s just really about all the keyboard gyrations that command line Linux makes me do. It’s not just letters, oh no… LINUX adds | and ! and ^ and ><!@@##@%!#$%!11GRRWTF like typing into your daily vocabulary. Too often.
Not to get get all whiny, but is this really necessary? Can’t you have the worlds coolest operating system AND a decent GUI that I can use remotely? If Windows can do it, why cant you guys figure this out? Is this a counter culture statement of “we’re soooo not Windows dude“?
If you are a LINUX nerd reading this and you have an answer for me, I beg of you leave the answer to my mystery in the comments. I am a lazy typer, beyond my prime keyboarding days of %@#$ and >><<^^abab start and such. I like all the fun without all the crazy typing workouts.
On the other hand I have installed Apache, mysql, two databases, a mail server, a web server, a blog, anti spam, web mail, and many other server level services TWICE over the past few weeks.
The second time was because I fat fingered a single file permission command, and wiped out the file permissions on my whole server. O RLY?
On a positive note, I restored the whole server in two and a half hours yesterday.
I love LINUX.
