Post Azs4aPIuMn1mBuFoP2 by matt@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #Azs4aJnWq1xL78XBIW by matt@toot.cafe
       2025-11-03T13:18:16Z
       
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       I recently saw a toot saying that Linux on the desktop will take off and go mainstream once the terminal is hidden away under advanced settings (actually, twenty years after that). I had an immediate emotional reaction to that. This was my response: https://toot.cafe/@matt/115485907341571353I feel like future generations need to be able to easily discover programming, almost stumble into it, as I could on my family's first computer, an Apple IIGS. So the idea of burying the terminal just seems wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azs4aPIuMn1mBuFoP2 by matt@toot.cafe
       2025-11-03T13:30:50Z
       
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       Putting a terminal front and center is a statement that you, the user, will want or even need to do things with your computer that we, the developers, didn't necessarily anticipate and design prefab, polished user interfaces for. Burying the terminal is a statement that we developers know best, and you users are a lower class that need to be protected from the things that we think you can't handle.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azs4nOixpjBe9pdUHI by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
       2025-11-03T14:29:04Z
       
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       @matt I understand where this idea comes from, computers didn't really become this mainstream home item until after DOS but at the same time I don't like the idea of computers turning into an appliance that you can't control.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwSYDxek71Rxte4G0 by dcc@annihilation.social
       2025-11-05T17:14:05.997808Z
       
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       @BrodieOnLinux @matt You support every project that wants to do that....