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I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I've hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!

What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files... but that's a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it's actually just a CLI that doesn't fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don't like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It's definitely intimidating at first but cheat sheets (or straight up googling) can help with a lot of stuff. But in modern Linux, you also don't really need the terminal for a lot of things; mainly just installing software or updating. So you don't need to know a lot about it.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 1 points 55 minutes ago

See, that's interesting. Because you tell me I don't need the terminal, while loads of other folks say that yeah, sometimes you do, and that's the best part. Although I suppose a lot of those folks are terminal junkies making some tasks more obtuse on purpose.

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

Even installing software or updating won't need the terminal in a lot of distros nowadays, or at least won't need the user to type any commands.