"Most potential
< users don't want to deal with downloading maxima and it's gui
< wxmaxima separately. The command line maxima makes the user feel like
< it's some ancient DOS program and inherently inferior to Mathematica
< or any other CAS."
I wrote a program in 1978-79 that does output like Maxima's display2d=true just like command line Maxima uses. I was a
second year sophomore at the time, so it is not rocket science. Certainly some people think that is adaquate, but I
like wxMaxima much better. Let's not bash all of Maxima because of it's inclusion of this old style of output. The GUI
interface is available for people like you.
So what exactly is your problem?
Rich