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linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I maintain a cluster of hundreds of linux boxes professionally. I run NixOS, Debian, Ubuntu and Centos currently and I’m ultimately familiar with all but Nix, as I’ve only been running it for six months. I’ve been Linux on the desktop for most of time since about 2003, all of my installs are up to date.

Someone who’s solidly averse to the terminal is going to be in for a surprise the first time a kernel update breaks Nvidia, or if they decide to dual boot and MS breaks grub. The existing GUI management situation is a bare minimum skeletons or undocumented clutter. He’s looking for a control panel not kate wrapped into a list of files.

The worst part is any support he’s looking for isn’t going to mention crap about whatever bolt on GUI he’s trying to use. All the support out there is run this command, run that command, cat | cut | xargs, check service status with this, check logs with that.

I’ve never known anyone even marginally advanced in Linux that doesn’t have a strong grasp of the terminal and their way around bash. They all go back to Windows/Mac.

I’ll stick with my suggestion that Linux is not for anyone with a strong aversion to terminals. I don’t think that’s out of date what-so-ever.

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