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Except that to those of us who cut our teeth on DOS & Windows, and grew to the point that going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the har
by Endy 10y ago
Except that to those of us who cut our teeth on DOS & Windows, and grew to the point that going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the hard way or because of a specific failure, *nix presents a vastly different working paradigm.
Not to mention compatibility issues and other general issues.
- subway 10y agoI grew up on DOS and Windows, and never felt that way. The console was always for when I ran into limitations imposed by whatever GUI I was in.
- likeclockwork 10y agoWhen you say that "going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the hard way or because of a specific failure", it's true about windows because the windows command line was basically unsupported territory. The Windows command line ecosystem was a stagnant ghetto for a long time. You had to use an uncomfortable and ugly program to access it and the environment itself barely moved from DOS. PowerShell was the first real progress in a long time and now they've arrived at 'lets just run bash on windows'.