Most servers around the world run Linux. The same goes for almost all supercomputers. That’s astonishing in a capitalist world where absolutely everything is commodified. Why can’t these big tech companies manage to sell their own software to server operators or supercomputers? Why is an open, free project that is free for users so superior here?

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
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    You’re one of the people who would rather watch a 13 minute YouTube video than read a paragraph.

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      He says, as he replies to someone who just spent 30 minutes typing out a 14 paragraph message on a cellphone with no physical buttons.

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        To be a bit less flippant, the analogy isn’t far off.

        Reading terminal instructions that you can easily copy/paste is a hell of a lot easier than watching a video and clicking around menus.

        The issues that you’re having wouldn’t be any easier if they showed in a GUI. Yeah, things with GUI can be more polished, but that’s a result of the effort in that product, and not a result.of the GUI.

        I sympathize with what I believe is your main point, that Linux people often are condescending and refuse to make things user friendly, whether that’s in a GUI or in the terminal. But the terminal itself shouldn’t be too daunting.

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        Ain’t nobody reading that novel past “sudo apt install”, least of all OPs girlfriend from Canada there.