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Then, these users maybe should be using ios and not macos

• 0ct4via 4y ago
  How do you work that one out? The average user shouldn't need to delve into the command line -- whether it's macOS, Windows, Ubuntu (for example), whatever -- that's the whole point of a GUI. System Software (later Mac OS, for Mac OS 7.6 through Mac OS 9) didn't have a command line interface available. That did Apple pretty well from 1984 to 2001. Mac OS X (and later OS X, then macOS) obviously have the Terminal app, but it is neither a requirement nor in common usage for the average desktop user. Maybe don't be so classist and reductive? Not everyone hangs out on HN and uses terminal emulators regularly...
  • bookofjoe 4y ago
    I've been hanging out on and enjoying HN daily for many years and I STILL have NO IDEA what a Terminal app or command line is — nor will I ever try to find out.
    • 0ct4via 4y ago
      That's perfectly ok -- it's saddening when there are demeaning comments like above -- it's elitist and exclusionary. You keep doing what you're doing -- I'm pleased to have encountered the world's most popular blogging anesthesiologist!
      • bookofjoe 4y ago
        38 years of passing gas was enough.