Hands-on with the CLI

This weeks hands-on experience with the CLI was actually kind of fun. It made me nostalgic for my BASIC programming class in high school, although it also recollected my angst over my final project program not working and it taking me DAYS to figure out that it was all because I had typed a lowercase l in place of a 1. The teacher couldn't even find the mistake! Scarily, I actually found the Linux CLI easier and more enjoyable to work with than the vim interface and commands. Maybe I am just spoiled to Microsoft Word 2007, but I found the vim terrible to work with and can not fathom how it could ever be efficient to use. The far as CLI commands go, it was all pretty straightforward and everything worked as the tutorials described them. I have to admit that configurations I have done on my computers using Windows GUI were easier in some sense, but that is probably just because I am more familiar with them. I think the configuration possibilities in the Linux environment are actually more flexible and powerful though. The Windows GUI works great so long as you don't want to do anything to complicated or out of the ordinary. The Linux CLI seems like it could accommodate pretty much anything you could think of a valid command for.