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Why are distro communities turning linux more and more into Windows and Mac OS clones?

This is why I use Arch.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If you think GUI is intuitive you have never worked in support and despaired at people trying their best to get "simple" concepts like "left-click" vs. "right-click" wrong.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Oh, I have. Now imagine giving those people a command line.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is literally easier to explain to them how to do something on the command line than in a GUI, both in documentation and over the phone. That doesn't mean they will ever discover how to do something in either interface on their own but I don't really expect that from the people who make paper notes of the step-by-step process in GUI workflows anyway.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Just try to verbally describe the difference between a bracket, brace, or parenthesis, or forward slash vs backslash. I'm sure it will be fine. But absolutely, a text-based interface is easier to describe in text.

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