• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah that’s great if you know what dmesg is and how to use it.

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      No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

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        2 hours ago

        Not true at all. Anyone can simply click and scroll around a GUI to find what they need. The terminal is a literal black box that can’t do anything unless you know explicitly and exactly what to tell it.

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          Funny enough from experience having less GUI made it easier to learn.

          I started really using computers when I was introduced to the revolutionary concept of the internet in 2020.

          GUI did not seem much universal. Every app still has their own thing going on and I could not tell what are common to each.

          As example I was never told you can right-click on stuff other than desktop files, so I just assumed you couldn’t until I saw someone right click google’s bookmarks space one day.

          Also following a year old guide on programming felt outdated because youtube tutorial used the other visual studio and I assumed it was just the versions looking different while the “cc” command from a book written in 80s just worked on linux terminal.

          The main problem I had was remembering the commands and options but even that clicked over time.

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            58 minutes ago

            Most people do not know or care how computers work, nor should they. They only need to know how to use them as a tool to complete their tasks. Not having a GUI makes those tasks monumental in comparison. That’s why the GUI was created, after the terminal, and why virtually everyone uses it by default.