[LAU] Audio distros

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:01:04 +0100, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> On 17/02/13 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david wrote:
>>> On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>>> Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even
>>>> need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway.
>>>
>>> I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the
>>> cryptic command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily
>>> see what a particular package recommends and decide if I want to
>>> also include one or more the recommendations.
>>
>> That what "apt-cache policy<pkgname>", and "apt-cache show<pkgname>"
>> are for. I don't see how you can call the command lines crptic!
>
> It's really about if you prefer mousing around in menus or typing a few  
> words. Either way it is easy to get the information you need, and make  
> the choices you want.
>
> After finding out the words to type I prefer the typing, or if in a gui  
> then I prefer to find out the keyboard shortcuts (either of these means  
> learning something rather than searching each time, but layers of tabs  
> and menus will seem just as cryptic if they are unfamiliar)
>
>   ... words are just my preferred way of working, they seem less cryptic  
> to me.

Using apt and other CLI tools for DEBs IMO is less comfortable. A really  
nice to use CLI tool is Arch's pacman.
On DEB and RPM based distros I prefer a GUI and for Arch I don't use a  
GUI. However, we have the choice to use, what fits best to our tastes.