• madcaesar@lemmy.world
    33·
    6 months ago

    When you make fun of something that really isn’t an issue it just makes your side look worse. Windows has real problems, but installing shit ain’t it.

    My dad can install anything on windows with clicks, he can’t do shit with a terminal.

    I’m a power user and love GUIs. I’ll use git desktop all day everyday, instead of typing shit in a command line. It’s one button press vs typing paths and hoping you don’t misspell shit.

    I don’t really get the whole command line fetish, there are no extra points in life for doing things the harder way.

    • redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      6 months ago

      Ah, yes. I also love it when I search for firefox on my new PC with Edge (without adblocker) and get sponsored malware in the results.

      I still use windows but I think installing software on Linux is way more convenient. Especially with the AUR.

    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
      4·
      6 months ago

      Yay -S app is hard? Or apt install app? Or flatpak?

      Being used to a habit doesnt make the habit the default way. Humans adapt quickly.

    • Prok@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      The GUI app centers on most distros are quite usable without command line wizardry and reduces the risk of dodgey download sites

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      A simple analogy is, would you rather have keyboard with a-z and symbols you can use to build words/sentences, or would you want a wordlist you can scroll and click, while expanding words in groups, and having to find non-frequent words with a lot of difficulty to make up sentences.

      Command line use is harder if you come from gui. But the main use case of command line are:

      • automation: anything you can do in a command line, can be copied in a script,
      • uniformity: every software now has almost the same format of use,
      • flexibility: gui almost always has less options than command line, and many times options are hidden within a lot of tabs and options.
      • Auto complete: whenever someone complains about terminal being hard to use and spelling mistakes I think about this. I think many people that come from GUI don’t know about auto-completion on terminal. It’s easy to see which options are available, easy to choose files, wildcards for multiple files, and all that
      • piping: command line allows you to chain one command with another. You have a command to list all your music files, chain that with a search command to search files within them. Now if you need to search in a python code, you use the same search command, just different command to read the file. You basically have lego blocks (old ones) that can be used to make anything.

      I can understand people being afraid of command line when they start, but I think many people come with biases and don’t use good terminal and other tools to make things easier.