response 8 of 15:

Sep 19 21:16 UTC 2006

gull puts it nicely. To be fair, if Windows' GUI ran "over" a CLI, and there
was a problem with it (as with the (in)famous Ubuntu bug of a few weeks ago),
the system would be recoverable; however, as was pointed out in relation to
Ubuntu, few, if any, members of its target market would be able to deal with
putting the GUI right from the CLI.

To add, it's certainly true that the data in a journalled filesystem could
be "resurrected" if the filesystem crashed in the middle of writing the data
- but what if it crashed in the middle of writing the *meta*data (the
journal)?