Split from Ubuntu philosophy thread

[[SomeGuy]]

Desktop Environments are only programs. They take the user away from the actual OS. I feel that you should understand what an OS is. However, I'm not against them. They do make things somewhat prettier...but I have a terminal embedded in my desktop, and I use that mainly. I use elinks/w3m, g++, ee, and do all kinds of stuff from the command line. It's my preffered way of navigation. But, DEs are pretty sexy...add gDesklets and Compiz, and AWN, and ZOMGOrDZ. Cute.

[Tyler]

I don't know enough about the terminal nor Ubuntu itself really to use the Terminal as a preffered way of navigation

[khh]

When I'm on a linux computer, I end up using the command line almost exclusively. When on a windows machine, however, I avoid the command line as much as possible. Linux is just built for command line use.