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Hilarious how the first Linux user's response to a Windows user's unease is immediately "open the terminal" As long as that's how it goes, it will never be the
by dabluecaboose 4y ago
Hilarious how the first Linux user's response to a Windows user's unease is immediately "open the terminal"
As long as that's how it goes, it will never be the Year of the Linux Desktop.
- snvzz 4y agoTyping (or pasting) a command into a terminal will always be more reproduceable than anything GUI.
- dabluecaboose 4y agoSure, and I'm personally fine with it. I'm one of those kooks at work who requested a Linux workstation, much to the chagrin of the IT department. But as long as there is a conversation between Windows and Linux that includes using the terminal, you've lost the "normie" segment of the population, which is going to preclude most people from even considering it. This fact is invariably met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth by Linux bros who think that there's no problem at all with it.
- snvzz 4y agoAnd we're fine with it. They can suffer Windows or MacOS, it means nothing to me.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoI'm not entirely fine with it, because I suspect Valve will only continue investing in Linux gaming if there's a potential market for it.
- snvzz 4y agoI doubt this "potential market" is going to shrink, relative to when Valve started investing in Open Source operating systems.
- Spivak 4y agoI did this on Windows too. Why even bother giving someone "click here then here the look for this menu on the right" when I can just send them a PowerShell script.
- ragazzina 4y agoThe issue is discoverability.
- snvzz 4y agoThe terminal does not tend to be hard to discover on Linux. It is right there ready to use.
- unstatusthequo 4y agoExactly. Where everything I need to do requires a cryptic command to pull off. What args do I need? Where? Oh shit a capital letter. Try again. I don't want to have to Google everything I need to do. Maybe voice enabled GPT-4 will help.