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This is insane lmao. Why not just edit out the line that added into your .zshrc (or by extension the .bashrc) instead of running through all these complicated G

This is insane lmao. Why not just edit out the line that added into your .zshrc (or by extension the .bashrc) instead of running through all these complicated GUI specific things just to basically rename the file so that ZSH doesn't load it when it runs a shell??? This is exactly why you should learn to use your tools properly, learn just a tiny tiny tiny bit of posix shell (which works for ALL posix shells sh, tcsh, bash, zsh etc...) so that you can understand what the heck is going on. Like seriously, this is day one stuff. Your shell loads a configuration file and you can set programs to run on start, or configure shell options, set aliases etc... This is nuts man. in fact I was so baffled that I wrote my own article response https://sweetbbak.github.io/post/response-to-mac-anaconda/ https://sweetbbak.github.io/post/response-to-mac-anaconda/

easeout 2y ago
While I agree in principle, this is a professor sharing as foolproof a method as he can find to get many students, whose existing knowledge, setup, and CLI avoidance he can't control, to the meat of the course experience he has designed for them.
promer 2y ago
FYI, I offered a comment above that might clarify. There are two questions: 1) How can we get a specific group of students who feel helpless started on the path to learning? 2) What should we teach students? In the post linked here, I tried to be clear that these are instructions for a very specific group of students who are stuck and don't know what to do. I agree that they are not the right instructions to offer to the typical reader of this site. The comment and the second post that it references address what we should teach.