“If I send you an email from gmail, you can open it in outlook, right?” “Yeah”“That’s because an email is just a file that both gmail and outlook can use” “makes sense”“Can I see your Twitter post on Reddit?” “No of course not”“But i can see Lemmy (Reddit) posts on Mastodon (Twitter). And these apps aren’t owned by huge companies. Normal people run each instance, and the software is free for anyone to use or host.”
wget -h
“Less bad?” They ask.“Well yes, but also just less.”
I immediately tried ifconfig. You’re probably too young to even know that command.
Linux is fine without CLI for web browsing.
But when I needed an advanced secure virtual machine isolated torrent solution, I had to use the CLI.
Here’s some thoughts on accomplishing that in Linux without the CLI.
if you have a Nvidia graphics card… Audio issues are also prevalent.
Take care to purchase hardware that advertises Linux support.
especially if you have a Nvidia graphics card
True. But do we have to include the NVidia disclaimer in every post about Linux adoption?
If all you do is web browse and play games, you should be able to use Linux without the CLI just fine.
Then don’t use the terminal. You don’t need it.
Silly to get angry about, because you can use Linux just fine without it. But the terminal is a powerful tool.
With flatpak/snap you don’t need to use terminal anymore.
But I’m sick of people pretending like the issue is the user.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
don’t use terminal, you don’t need it.so here’s the thing: providing support is much easier on the command line.
as a hiring manager
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