Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:38:00 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <vuh6cn$11toh$7@dont-email.me>
References: <slrn1001o8j.lgn.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
	<878qnrblto.fsf@somewhere.edu> <slrn100nr0k.2o5.jj@iridium.wf32df>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:38:00 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bceb8c4a7e256e32da1d73af157d8d76";
	logging-data="1111825"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18p8OGr8p7mDhi1mySpBFl5"
User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:wXcKSTGN9saYPXnGPtkjc464kB8=
Bytes: 2017

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

> What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?
> I thought it wa a passing fad.

People outside the *nix world are rediscovering the things that the 
command line makes easier than any GUI -- namely, automating repetitive 
tasks.

Trouble is, after so many decades of being conditioned by major vendors 
like Microsoft and Apple to be allergic to the command line, it’s turning 
out to require some major intellectual effort, on the part of both users 
and vendors, to get to grips with this new-old way of doing things. Look 
at Microsoft’s struggles to turn Windows into something closer to Linux.

Apple in theory has a slight advantage in that, buried somewhere within 
its proprietary OS is the remnants of something that used to be more like 
a *nix system. But it seems to have deviated too far from the mainstream, 
and the company shows little interest in remedying that.