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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic (but I'll assume you're not). From my point of view, your comment describes exactly why Windows is easier. In the Linux

by amirmc 14y ago

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic (but I'll assume you're not). From my point of view, your comment describes exactly why Windows is easier. In the Linux example you're using the command line with commands folks don't know about ('pacman', 'grep') with flags they'd have to read about ('-S' and "How do you make that vertical line thing?"). Of course they'd also have to understand the output of those commands. The Windows example is largely point and click (using tools people are already familiar with, e.g google, web-browsers etc)

jiggy2011 14y ago
To be fair, almost every modern Linux distro does provide some GUI for package management. In ubuntu you can either search the software store and click "Install" or download a .deb, double click it and click "Install". It's just that experienced users tend to find the command line versions quicker and easier.
Aardwolf 14y ago
I know many people who are, e.g. with some in-house application in some company, able to do this kind of thing, by just having a paper with instructions and following it step by step. I also know someone who is not good with computers at all, but has used DOS before using Windows. She could do just as much in DOS as in Windows, even thought DOS did involve the command line (and lots of word perfect). So if you simply have a printout saying what the command to install something in Linux is, and another printout saying what to click on in Windows to install something, I think that conceptually the Linux one will be slightly simpler. Same also with tech support! In Linux, tech support goes like this: "Please run this command and give me the output". "Now run that command" ok, problem fixed. In Windows it's "click here. do you see that now? Now click that. No, I mean THAT. Do you see a button at the bottom? Yes, that one! Click it. etc....". And finally, if we're gonna be talking to computers in the future, talking is more like a command line interface than a GUI, and despite that is more natural.

by amirmc 14y ago

jiggy2011 14y ago

To be fair, almost every modern Linux distro does provide some GUI for package management. In ubuntu you can either search the software store and click "Install" or download a .deb, double click it and click "Install". It's just that experienced users tend to find the command line versions quicker and easier.

Aardwolf 14y ago

I know many people who are, e.g. with some in-house application in some company, able to do this kind of thing, by just having a paper with instructions and following it step by step. I also know someone who is not good with computers at all, but has used DOS before using Windows. She could do just as much in DOS as in Windows, even thought DOS did involve the command line (and lots of word perfect). So if you simply have a printout saying what the command to install something in Linux is, and another printout saying what to click on in Windows to install something, I think that conceptually the Linux one will be slightly simpler. Same also with tech support! In Linux, tech support goes like this: "Please run this command and give me the output". "Now run that command" ok, problem fixed. In Windows it's "click here. do you see that now? Now click that. No, I mean THAT. Do you see a button at the bottom? Yes, that one! Click it. etc....". And finally, if we're gonna be talking to computers in the future, talking is more like a command line interface than a GUI, and despite that is more natural.