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on a side note: I would argue that Unix-on-the-desktop for non-nerds was basically always a pipe dream (excluding highly locked down things like a chromebook),
by TylerE 3y ago
on a side note: I would argue that Unix-on-the-desktop for non-nerds was basically always a pipe dream (excluding highly locked down things like a chromebook), and indeed the unix philosophy itself doomed it. Lots of tiny tools chained together doesn't really translate to a GUI paradigm.
- dehrmann 3y agoIt barely translates to a CLI. awk, cut, and sort all set the delimiter differently.
- TylerE 3y agoFor sure. Figured that was too much of a sacred cow. I wonder what a clean room user space might look like. Maybe the fish guys could write it. They clearly have some interesting ideas for dragging the shell into this millennium.