• sunbunman@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Aight time to try and learn Linux for the 10th time and see if someone without strong console knowledge can use one now.

    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      I’ve been using it for a few months now and only rarely I used console and it was just to paste some commands for something. So yeah, I don’t think that you really need to know howbto use console if you don’t need to do anything that specifically needs it.

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        6 months ago

        Rarely is still too much for me.
        If I do regular joe stuff, I don’t want to be required to go into the terminal.

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          6 months ago

          I had to often look up how to do stuff on windows because of it’s trash UX so it’s an absolute W for me. But I can understand that terminal may look too scary/complicated to some ppl.

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            6 months ago

            Oh Windows is certainly not exempt from the issue. Not at all.

            Personally I don’t have any issue with the terminal but sometimes I am totally not in the mood to research yet another time why or how to run anything.
            Also I prefer Word way too much over Libre/OpenOffice.
            Only if they had a word-like theme and translation to achieve what I want in a word-like behaviour it could tempt me to switch the tools.

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          6 months ago

          You shouldn’t have to.

          I live near exclusively in the console because it’s my work and I love it, it’s WAY more efficient than the GUI, but last time I actually NEEDED the console? I can’t remember, honestly.

          Also are you trying to say you never needed to figure something out on windows? Granted, I don’t read much about it because fuck Windows, but I remember windows Registry headaches, is that still a thing? Just copy paste these base64 codes in the registry in these UUID keys, which literally would be impossible to learn, and it will fix it, super easy!

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            6 months ago

            At least not for the regular joe stuff I do.
            Obviously I tinker with my install and am not shy about reverting to a backup if I know it will be highly intrusive.
            For the not so regular joe stuff close to the pro-sumer region you probably will have to research just about anything if you want to achieve something.

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              6 months ago

              You have to learn a little for any task, so people saying that they don’t want to learn something is a bit weird.

              Linux really isn’t more complicated than windows. Actually, after 25 years of Linux desktop, looking at windows it’s frustrating complication after complication.

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      6 months ago

      If you just want to browse the web and edit work documents you have nothing to fear.

      If you just want a game and don’t want to be too awfully picky about what you’re playing you have nothing to fear

      If you want to play anti-cheap games and host docker components you’re going to have to do a little console here and there.

      If you want to stream to YouTube and twitch, You’re probably not going to have as much of a good time. You can still do it but there’s work and compromises involved.