abbotsbury

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[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

This is why people don't take you seriously

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've been boycotting CS2 (née CSGO) since November 2019 when they introduced Fortnite skins with annoying voices that you couldn't turn off or disable.

I don't think it has worked but I'm definitely never playing another Valve multiplayer game, they always turn out the same way.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I don't think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Good people are dying now though. When is the cost of drastic change worth the cost of the status quo?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I just picked up Drumshanbo with California Oranges and it is positively delicious, very strong nose without a strong taste, great for sipping or mixing.

Tanq 10 is on my list but every place I've visited didn't have it

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean something like this? They exist, they've been around, for awhile actually.

The problem with them is that it is simply not easier. If you know what you want to do, it is faster to press two keys and start searching history, or just start typing and use autocomplete, than it is to move your mouse to click a square. And if you don't know what you're doing, you'll have to do research regardless, and maybe I'm biased but I still think it is easier to copy and paste a command than it is to read the directions to get to the submenu I want, and then replicate each step in my own GUI.

Also, I don’t know, when you last used a settings app or something similar but once you‘re more than two sub pages in, you’re usually in the realm of stuff even people who use a CLI a lot would have to look up the commands

That's just not true, at least for Windows. Many common things are hidden in window menus that can only be accessed from specific pages from the control panel, because MS never really committed to the whole Metro thing so you gotta dig around for the real stuff that hasn't been added to the regular control panel.

Because a good UI Design makes stuff you need regularly easy accessible.

Right, but how often are UIs designed goodly? GUIs are nice, don't get me wrong, but the simplicity of a CLI is wrongly maligned because people think it's scary, and are in fact very easy to use if you spend the minimum necessary effort to know what you're doing. Literally just tell the computer what you want to do

Different is not hard. Popular Linux distros have been streamlined to the point of not needing a CLI for casual use for 10+ years now anyway.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

So if I looked up how Republicans and Democrats vote, they'd be the same? The Democratic voting history would be literally no better?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All Dems are voting for fascism?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But cli you have to memorize

It literally keeps a history of everything you've typed in, that you can search with context clues or just look through chronologically and get the exact command you needed from last time. Seems like you're just making excuses. Needing to look in a dozen different pages isn't any easier than looking to see what program you need to use.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If people can do that for Windows, they can also do it for Linux

idk what is wrong with Ubuntu but autostarting applications is extremely simple. If looking online for help isn't for a lot of people, then computers aren't for a lot of people.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So what do those people do when their Windows machine doesn't just work and applications require a workaround?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

knowing terminal commands is neither accessible nor feasible for the average computer user

I don't think that's true. It's literally just asking your computer what to do, much easier to remember than memorizing which subpage of the control panel opens the right wizard to get what you want.

 
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