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With all due respect to the author, I take umbrage with the statement "They never end up in the terminal, because that is a huge jump in complexity, usability,
by thebeardisred 2y ago
With all due respect to the author, I take umbrage with the statement "They never end up in the terminal, because that is a huge jump in complexity, usability, and frustration from using something like Airtable or Notion."
Using the command line isn't more complex, it's differently complex. It's differently complex and writ large, schools make no effort to teach it.
- charlie0 2y agoThe "huge jump in complexity, usability" refers to not being able to use a mouse, which a lot of people find intimidating for some reason.
- skydhash 2y agoI've rarely seen cashiers use their mouse. The issue is training. And the terminal lands you directly in the guts of the computer. The mouse is safe because there's limited actions you can do with it. But people are OK with learning the keybindings for whatever game they want to play. What's distressing is when the software changes randomly after an update. Imagine retraining from Office 2003 to 2007 with the ribbon. Or windows 7 to Windows 8.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoMovies about nerds getting bullied who later used command lines to do nerd shit have left a generation of folks afraid of any command line anything. There’s a guy who got accused of being a terrorist just because he used a command line on an airplane. Don’t believe me? Look at the “Linux porn” and “ricer” communities on Reddit, who go out of their way to make their systems look as “TUI cool” as possible, complete with customized tiling WMs. Most of the people doing this do it because they’re going for the “l33t h4x0r” vibes.