so, you think
convert $img $img-.gif is more convinient.
Let's see.. you open command prompt
then go to the directory..
hopefully the convert is within the global path but sometimes you don't so, you have to know where it is...
In Windows/GUI, you go to the application, select all the images, right click, select convert.
you don't have to remember all those commands. because there are too many commands. and if you miss type, you have to type them again. that's why we use word processor instead of type writer.
you just need to know how to do things because most of these tasks are very intuitive.
If your assertion is true about Windows vs Linux, We would be using Linux. The fact and reality speaks for itself. It's self evident. Linux hasn't cracked any dent on Windows market share.
Menu's are hassle? you must like to do things hardway. I guess that's interesting. I don't have time to remember all those keystrokes. there are too many applications to remember all the keystokes. you equate harder way of doing as interesting.
do you walk to your work since it's harder. I mean, why ride a car, bus, plane,... why don't you just walk all over the place. In fact, why use computer. why don't you just use paper.
Microsoft outsells Linux for the same reason that Krispy Kreme outsells spinach health shakes.
I'm not the original poster, but you missed the point. You've got many files to convert, let's say 100. How do you use what comes with Windoze to convert each one without having to click on each file in turn?
I had a similar issue at work (defense contractor). We had dozens of log files that were the outputs from several runs of our software, all stored in a directory structure based on machine name and date. I needed to extract a particular set of log messages from each file. With a GUI it would have been a several day project: first run a find to locate all matching log files, then open each file in turn and search for the particular log messages, highlight them and copy & paste into another file. Repeat thousands of times. Instead I used a combination of bash shell commands, grep, awk, and sed and completed the task in one hour.
Sometimes the command line is a much more powerful tool than the GUI.
P.S. Running FireFox 1.0 and default settings: I get no pop-ups from drudgereport.com
you must like to do things hardway. I guess that's interesting. I don't have time to remember all those keystrokes. there are too many applications to remember all the keystokes. you equate harder way of doing as interesting.
do you walk to your work since it's harder. I mean, why ride a car, bus, plane,... why don't you just walk all over the place. In fact, why use computer. why don't you just use paper.
That's right in line with Linus Torvalds' own philosophy of Linux. From his announcement of Linux 0.02:
Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? ... Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on Minix? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you.
Yes, Linux - and its fans - are not interested in ease of use. Instead, they're interested in making things more and more difficult and dense and impenetrable.