[mythtv-users] On the verge of giving up

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Mon Sep 24 17:21:46 UTC 2007


John Drescher wrote:
>>> These are my own answers:
>>> - no offence but the mythtv documentation is written for linux litterate
>>> people. It takes us the route of command line too often. We want GUI.
>> You mean *you* want GUI. I am perfectly happy with the CLI, though I'll
>> admit that giving the user the choice is the best answer.
>>
> Being a windows admin for 10 years and a linux admin for 5 years I
> consider the nearly 100% reliance of windows on the GUI to be a
> serious weakness making installs/updates and other administrative
> tasks a lot more difficult then a similar operation on linux is.
> 
Similar amount of experience, and I agree. But personally, I find I prefer a GUI 
to do most tasks. Don't mind either way, but most of my experience has been with 
a GUI, so that's what I am used to.

Mike Perkins



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