[HN Gopher] You Don't Need a GUI
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You Don't Need a GUI
Author : loige
Score : 12 points
Date : 2021-04-08 21:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| codpiece wrote:
| This is great! I learned a couple of new commands today, and I've
| been on unix for years.
| thrower123 wrote:
| I'm not sure how big the subset of people that use unix systems
| and are ignorant of the command line is.
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| Most of your GUI users are on Windows, and unix shell commands
| mostly do not work or are aliased to other commands that don't
| work exactly the same way as they do in GNUland.
| analog31 wrote:
| Oddly enough, even in the Windows world, I'm seeing more and
| more instructions for things like installing a software app or
| component, as a list of commands that you enter into the shell
| or the taskbar search box.
|
| Installation instructions for Windows are horrifying -- page
| after page of pictures, with circles and arrows and a
| paragraph... And when the OS is updated, all of the dialog
| layouts and icons change just a bit and you're lost. Just gimme
| some shell commands.
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