Agreed, Chris.

For those of us interested in educating people on computers, though, 
this opens up a neat education path.  When I read this I kind of felt 
like I found my glasses on the tip of my nose.   First get people using 
Bash with tty display; then when they find their limits in dumb-terminal 
only, get them using X with a very dumb twm, so they get their graphics 
when they type commands into the terminal; then when they're comfortable 
with this, let them use KDE/Gnome.  Then after those four weeks, watch 
the light bulbs go off!  And watch them turn off all those KDE popups!  
It's the same path we all had.  I think this article shows that this 
kind of path may be necessary, to kind of build a more robust trellis.  
They may not learn everything to the same degree we do, but that's their 
choice.  It's ours to show the way, and this might be a better way to do 
this.  We might be hurting more than helping by starting and ending in 
GUI only. 

I'm introducing my wife to HTML in vi.  She's doing okay, but there was 
some confusion with the terminal in a window.  Even when I showed her a 
Konqueror window with the same file list, it wasn't clear for some 
time.  Starting with the terminal without the X might have been easier.

--Alexander

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