I really really want to engage in this altcoin community, but I find the command lines and such quite confusing, so much looking forward to official gui releases, wallet/miner
Yeah, if you can't use a shell, you'll want to wait a bit on this one.
its not like im an inexperienced windows user, but I feel rather uncomfy when we are dealing with command lines, unstable soft like windows and real investments. Is the gui wallet under testing fully functional? can you save ur monero even though its experimental?
Well, I'm not trying to be mean when I say this, but this is pre-alpha software. Monero may one day make it big with some work, but it has some seriously massive bugs.
As for the GUI wallet, I would trust the CLI tools far more than I would trust it. Why? Because it's had even less time to mature than Monero has (even though I'm sure it is less complex), and more importantly, it uses the same CLI tools anyway. Adding that layer of indirection just means more can go wrong.
All that being said, I have bought a LOT of Monero, relative to the amount of money I have, and I am considering buying more.
Just make absolutely sure you have a copy of your wallet stored securely. It's even more important with Monero than bitcoin-based stuff -- I have corrupted my wallet.bin and wallet.keys several times.
I keep a spare copy of it on another directory on my computer, and another copy remotely. That seems to work pretty well thus far.
