Unix

Tuesday January 10, 2006 - 3:23PM EDT

As it happens, I dislike UNIX and its kin because it is based on the premise that people should interact with computers through a "command line." First the person does something, usually either by typing or clicking with a pointing device. And then, after an unspecified period of time, the computer does something, and then the cycle is repeated. That is how the Web works, and how everything works these days, because everything is based on those damned Linux servers. Even video games, which have a gloss of continuous movement, are based on an underlying logic that reflects the command line. - full article

Reading this essay on the Internet and I cam across this snippet that I absolutely love. I've been articulating this using the overtext of crappy user interfaces in today's computers. I hate the command line. And anyone who does like it can suck my nuts. Oh yeah and then can also realize that a GUI based OS rules the world (Windows).