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This is a silly thread, beginners don’t even know the terminal exists, and 99% don’t need to. The situation is the same in Windows, though they might have a fe
by mixmastamyk 2y ago
This is a silly thread, beginners don’t even know the terminal exists, and 99% don’t need to.
The situation is the same in Windows, though they might have a few more duplicated GUIs, they don’t solve the long tail of troubleshooting. You can also use a Mac Keyboard with Linux.
It doesn’t make any sense to remove terminals either, when available and tiny in resource use. Use an OS modeled on the original Mac OS if you want to be prevented from seeing a terminal.
Utopia never existed in the computing world. But the war on general purpose computing sure has. Soon there will be no place to turn for an experienced user who is not a slave to bigcorp interests. Unfortunately the bondage you recommend leads here, they are now coupled.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoTo extend, this issue affects an incredibly small number of computer users. The 1% that knows it exists, divided by the large fraction that is too busy (or lazy?) to work around it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390656 The reason it falls between the cracks is because it doesn't affect enough people, especially normal folks. But let's not kid ourselves that integrating one of the existing fixes would affect the industry significantly.