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The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique. Maybe this GUI is the perfect occasion to put rsync in the hands of more people ? We all know how powerful it
by rakoo 7y ago
The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique. Maybe this GUI is the perfect occasion to put rsync in the hands of more people ? We all know how powerful it is, there is no reason it should be used only by people who are happy testing the different flags, reading random blog posts about what combination to use, and trying to find salvation in a 3000-line manual page.
- haggy 7y agoWhere and how are you coming to the conclusion that rsync is "niche clique"?
- oblio 7y agoIf you use any CLI you are already "niche clique".
- rakoo 7y agoAsk a hundred person in the street if they've ever heard, let alone used, rsync.
- haggy 7y agoWhat kind of crap response is that? Ask any 100 people on the street about any industry specific tooling or terms and you're likely to get nothing. Go ask people 100 people about "liquidated derivatives" and see what happens.
- rakoo 7y ago> Ask any 100 people on the street about any industry specific tooling or terms and you're likely to get nothing. That's exactly my point: rsync is a UNIX-specific tooling, which makes it niche among people who use computers.
- haggy 7y agoYour "logic" here (which is probably just trolling) is not worth another response
- LeonB 7y ago>The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique. While that may be true, I think: "The sort of folk who would benefit from being able to run rsync" is a much, much broader group. (And even the existing group of rsync users can benefit from a tool to help construct a command line, that they then copy out and use. Usability matters!) Ashley's target market are Archivists. They may or may not use rsync already, but you can see why they'd all benefit from it.
- rakoo 7y agoAbsolutely, that was my point: the tool is extremely good but kind of hard to use, a lot of people would definitely benefit from it.