control+c/v doesn’t work in a terminal
cackles maniacally in macOS
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NannerBanner@literature.cafe 14 hours ago
It’s not just doing it differently, it’s doing it wrongly!!!
If I’m watching someone do something differently than I do, it’s often fun to ask them why. You might pick up a new technique, or see how you’ve been doing something that’s holding you back.
…but when I’m watching someone else use a computer, it just drives home how they don’t know what they’re doing, but just following basic steps that they (probably) learned one time from some other fool that probably learned from some community computer class where typing was considered an advanced topic. It’s not seeing someone cut against the grain of the wood rather than with it, but rather watching them use a router to cut a 2x4 in half.
I can forgive someone for not knowing that control+c/v doesn’t work in a terminal (the first few times) (or doesn’t work like they expected, more accurately) or why, but I can’t grasp how we can be 20 years past common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 13 hours ago
Yes, yes, now go donate some more money to your turtlenecks so they can pass it along to trump.
TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s easier to like the OS when I’m not the one paying for the overpriced hardware
Mechanite@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Works on windows too. That was a bit of a learning curve for me switching to Linux
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
To be fair, you can just change your shortcuts in the terminal preferences.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
good luck cancelling commands after rebinding Ctrl+C. it sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t. Ctrl+C/V is acting differently in the terminal for a reason.
most terminals have bindings for Ctrl+Shift+C/V, though!
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Not to larp on the younger generations, but interacting with computers through touch screens is likely a major culprit here. Why would you know how to navigate file structures, or even open a terminal, when they were given an iPad when they were 5 years old?
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 40 minutes ago
The way programs are presented on a touch screen, and the actions they are taking inside of an application also being very fundamentally different in a gui sense, is surely to blame. I’m not upset about someone’s lack of understanding in that, really, in the sense of a generation alpha, but millenials, who had computer classes in just about every school in america thanks to apple and microsoft competing to get them hooked, give me major grumbles.