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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    It's always going to feel like this even if you never need a terminal for one simple reason:

    When you google "how to XX on linux," you're going to find a stackexchange page where someone else asked, and someone answered with a terminal command instead of "Ok what DE are you using? Ok, so you're gonna want to click these seventeen different menu options, and I don't remember them without looking at them myself." It's just always going to be easier to send someone a string of ~30char to type than to try and figure out their GUI without screensharing.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Linux Mint vs Windows is already enough to learn for a day 1 linux user.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

    I was today years old when I realized that "just works" has nothing to do with the interface kind. If it works, it works, that's it.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

    What if... You trolled someone by installing Linux, but with a GUI that 100% mimics Windows? πŸ€”

    Actually, fuck trolling. I want this. Gimme the OG Windows 95 GUI for KDE/Gnome.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    @pinball_wizard @Kolanaki why not just install tde? It may look like classic windows, but better

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Honestly, the biggest problem I've experienced is that once your colleagues see the CLI on your screen, you are no longer eligible to hold opinions on computers, systems or solutions.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    ...wat? In what kind of shop are you working?

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    That sounds backwards to me lol

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I'm on Mint, but I still use the terminal to update my flatpaks. I'm just freaky that way 😎

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Someday you'll try that over SSH once.

    Once.

    I have no idea why it is the way it is.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Most of the people I've introduced to Linux don't even use the shell. Beginner-friendly Linux distros are perfectly usable without ever touching a terminal, just as most people use Windows without ever touching PowerShell (or worse, the Registry Editor).

    [–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    literally just learn CLI, you're actively wasting time by not learning it. It's so hard to describe how utterly beneficial the CLI is to someone who hasn't used it.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Stop being the person the meme is about

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That's all the average computer user does.

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