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Honestly doing stuff by copy/pasting a comand line, is perhaps one of the most user friendly actions one could do. Especially compared to the where is charly g

• gmueckl 5y ago
  Executing random VBScript or PowerShell script files from the net worked out so nicely on Windows... Why should the equivalent action on Linux be less than an insta-own of the user's system in practice?
• neatze 5y ago
  This was the reason why I switched to Linux more 10 years ago, in addition to copy/past, history of what has been done and taking notes is something I don't think is replaceable with GUI, furthermore eventually I realized all commands can be converted into scripts, that survive distro updates.
• FractalParadigm 5y ago
  In theory, absolutely you're right, it's much easier, and much more user friendly. Even if you have to type your command(s) in by hand, with tab-complete available in virtually every modern shell, it's quicker and more direct than fiddling through menus. Although in practice, and in personal experience, users have a tendency to become effectively illiterate as soon as words appear on a screen instead of a physical media. They've been trained to look primarily for symbols or keywords ("Settings", "Internet", etc.) and ignore all that "other fluff." They don't want to read the output of a command line to figure out what happened, they want a pop-up that gives them their answer directly.
• emptyfile 5y ago
  The average user never saw a CLI interface in their life. I sometimes wonder in which universe HN posters live in.