There are many reasons to install from source code. Admittedly it isn't for
everybody, but he expressed a desire to do it. I believe I began my posting
with saying that I was glad that deadgobby posted the repositories idea
which he eventually used.

To me the GUI is less basic and more refined while the commandline is
considered more basic as much more is going on between the user and the
interface. Most people don't want to learn the basics and that is fine by
me. I prefer the GUI along with most people. However, the more sophisticated
the GUI becomes the farther from the action we get which at its most
fundamental or basic level is binary. I stand by what I wrote.

As for your position that it is elitist to suggest that we must all be geeks
to use Linux, I agree with that as well and don't think my posting reflected
that. Desktop Linux does not require you to be a geek anymore than Windows
does. What it does do is allow you to become geeky if that is your
inclination because it works on multiple levels equally well.

Where we might disagree is what level is considered more basic, the GUI or
the CLI. Since the GUI is becoming ever more sophisticated and binary is
going nowhere, I consider the CLI more basic.