• Azzu@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I mean it’s so logical, I have real troubles figuring out why so many people don’t get it.

      You can’t immediately see what options you have in a command line.

      In a UI, you see the “menu” button right there.

      If you have no idea about anything, in a UI, you can still click on the menu button, and are presented with more options.

      In a command line, if you have absolutely no clue, what do you need to do? Honestly, you have to ask someone who knows (be it a friend, a manual, or web search). You can randomly start typing or press keys, but the chance to get to something useful is very low.

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      Why do people always assume GNU+Linux relies on a command line these days!? That’s like saying Windows does… I.e. it’s not true. Maybe if you go back to the Win9x and DOS days.

      I swear, if you’re going to complain about possibly the only OS that fully respects users and their freedom, how about you actually use it first and understand it’s GUI mechanisms before spouting nonsense.

      Windows is dominant because of extreme anti-competitive and other nasty practices in the past. The reason it’s still dominant is because it has locked itself into it’s dominant position since people are used to it (they still do many nasty practices today, as well)

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        11 months ago

        That’s like saying Windows does… I.e. it’s not true. Maybe if you go back to the Win9x and DOS days.

        I don’t think you’ve seen the number of power user articles these days that give you two options :

        • Wade through 27 levels of keys and subkeys in regedit, create this dword, then stop and start this inscrutably-named service, or
        • Run this one line command in PowerShell.
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            11 months ago

            It’s was definitely one of those “seemed like a good idea at the time” kinda things, but now they’ve realised they’ve created a monster.