I feel like the meme got it backwards. People fussing over WMs in the middle, while newbies and veterans just using whatever comes by default on Fedora
I don't wear hats cos am busy using debian
What comes default on fedora KDE spin
Literally cured my distro hopping
Using Fedora without codecs?
Fuck Linux
All my homies use FreeDOS
Fuck FreeDOS
All my homies use Plan9
Fuck plan9
All my homies use EFI SHELL
In defense of the creators of Unix, you cannot fuck plan9.
I have a pocket pussy that uses plan9 for its OS
Fuck EFI SHELL.
All my Amish brothers and sisters use a Typewriter.
Everything on Qubes
Not all terminals are black!!
I would say we should burn the light-mode heritics, but they've already done it to their own eyes.
*heretics
And I wouldn't be so sure that light mode is more harmful than dark mode and not vice versa.
Depends on the ambiental conditions and the brightness; If you use dark mode outside? That's kinda on you if you get eye strain
GUI has the fundamental advantage that you can mostly find your way around without having to know commands, syntax, file paths etc. That's a huge advantage for the vast majority of users.
yea as much as like using the command line, I'm having a hard time remembering all the options required, especially with things i use rarely. the discoverability is just better in GUIs
I think it’s just been stigmatized by society as a whole for some mysterious reason. Didn’t a lot of our grandmothers slashed through terminals like fruit ninjas back in the day?
Heck yeah they did! I remember going over to my grandmothers house to use Word on her computer running DOS. She used that computer to keep her personal budget, do the accounting for her office supply business, write letters, and the newsletters for her church and social clubs. No gui, just a command line and some things that we would now call a TUI.
It's not a blank screen. It's a canvas. You just don't know how to paint.
Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.
Why is it constantly booting to a black screen with text?
This is easy, just install steam and go
Ahh the beauty of this Debian server, don't even need to get out of my sofa because I have SSH on my phone.
The HTC Dream was the peak of Phone SSH.
There was no key combo I couldn't input, no vim mode I couldn't use!
There was a VNC client! I could RDP to Windows machines!
I could have even used EMACS!
I mean, I wouldn't, I'm not some kind of monster, but I could have, and that's what's important!
My dream is the Linux kernel with the BeOS/Haiku filesystem and display system on top. It could easily put Wayland to shame and gaming would be pretty awesome.
My other dream is Haiku having as much hardware and software support as modern Linux. Imagine running a version of qemu kvm on an os that already screams.
Neither will happen but I can still wish.
It’s still somewhat early days, but you might want to check out https://v-os.dev/
I’ve also been playing with Haiku on an old laptop and it’s pretty decent as a daily driver for the basics.
GUI is simpler because you have to remember a sequence of steps for every action you want to take and then memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and then do it all again when they reinvent their product in two weeks.
CLI requires you to learn how your system is structured and where things are located and then you create scripts that last years. Not everyone wants to put in a bunch of effort just to use their computer.
Anyways Firefox just updated and they moved "save to collection" and a few other things so now I need to relearn some stuff. I hope my other apps don't reinvent themselves anytime soon. Every update I know how to use them less and less.
A regular user will never in a million years create a script.
How will they transfer their pirated media to their NAS? Manually? Every time?
Me, not being a programmer or sysadmin or whatever, booting into TTY just for shits and giggles, playing videos via mpv with -vo=tct just cause I think it looks funny
I can't use Linux, it's too hard!
The whole idea of someone not being sure if they want to use Linux while having an aversion to systemd, a system they likely don’t even have full context for, is just bizarre.
You’re either new and don’t know what you want or you’re someone who already knows well enough if Linux is for you or not, and likely exactly which version you want to use.
Exactly. The only thing a new user is really going to care about or even notice is if their hardware is well supported in first install and that the desktop environment feels like what they are used to. All of the fighting about things like systemd, snap, flatpak, deb vs rpm, etc are somewhere between a distraction and scary sounding words.
TUI enjoyer 😏
I'm a CLI enjoyer. It's easier for me to define what I often do as a bash function than to remember which button to click in a GUI app. It's easier for me to copy paste a StackOverflow answer than to zoom the screenshot only to find out that the UI has changed. And I'm too lazy to move my mouse when I can do it with a Neovim keymap.
Can't and don't want to are two different things.
the issue with the terminal is that you can easily fuck up really badly if you don't know what you're doing.
the following look the same to a new user:
rcifconfig -r 0 -f puny -l all
rctrl -r all -i root -f
(both are imaginary made-up comments sothat you cannot just say "oh well obviously one does this and the other one does that)
then one goes on to nuke your home directory while the other one restarts the wifi adapter.
(and this can actually happen in practice. consider all the "always remove the french language pack" jokes that has been going around for years.)
for graphical user interfaces, you typically have icons to help you give a sense of what it's doing, typically warning signs before you do anything dangerous, etc.
Look I just switched over from Windows, I'm new to this shit lol. I enjoy using commands while I'm learning them but mostly I just copy/paste from instruction manuals on how to install shit I want installed. Makes me feel like a master hacker.
Hint: :q!
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