In a famous article, Joel Spolsky wrote about Linux and Windows in terms of cultures around, spefically, a culture of programmers vs. end users. Withing the co

In a famous article, Joel Spolsky wrote about Linux and Windows in terms of cultures around, spefically, a culture of programmers vs. end users. Withing the context of Linux so, it's perfectly adequate to sprinkle some technicisms. The thing is, Linux has advanced a lot in the last decade, and it's even perfectly usable by the hmm "less receptive" users, so to see "cryptic terminal commands" is a good thing, because it shows that Linux has managed to be (so to speak) the best of both worlds, that is, the world of the casual users and the world of the advanced ones.