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    They'll cast you back to the Windows realm with all their toxic might (discuss.tchncs.de)
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    [–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (21 children)

    I have fixed loads & loads of issues via cli. I don't even know what the hell you're on about. Sounds like a skill issue, tbh.

    [–] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 2 months ago (20 children)

    Copy-pasting commands from search results instead of learning how the applications installed on their machine work. It's a lot deeper than skill issue...

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    You guys seem so utterly disconnected from the common user's perspective it's not even funny anymore. Expecting everyone to learn all those CLI tools and system components they may encounter… I hope you guys are also mechatronics engineers if you drive cars, botanists if you have a garden and at least intermediate chefs if you own more than the most basic kitchen.

    Please go out and talk with some people who're NOT into tech about this stuff, it's a sobering experience.

    [–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

    What a fucking leap. CLI does not equal complexity.

    If you can write and read, you can use a CLI. Can you read and write? Great, you can learn CLI cmds.

    People don't want to use CLIs because unless you've been using computers before windows 95, chances are that all your life you've been using a GUI, and humans in general don't like changes.

    Going from Windows to any Linux distro is a big enough leap, and adding a new way to interact with your tool on top of that is too much at once for the vast majority of people.

    With that said, a lot of Windows issues require you to use the CLI and mess with regedit to fix them. How is that any different than asking people to run a diagnostic command to troubleshoot their PC?

    You can use a Linux distro through a GUI pretty much 99.9% of the time, just like Windows. The only difference is that on Linux, the CLI is much more powerful than the GUI, so the majority of users will use the CLI to troubleshoot.

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