Let me guess, you use arch?
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yesdogishere@kbin.social 6 months agoWrong wrong wrong. The graphical user interface is crap and will always be crap. The whole matter of popularity is marketing bunkum. Console command interface was al ways faster and better than any gui for general computing tasks. The gui is fine for office tasks, but shit for everything else. The popularity of the gui today has driven a massive upscale of cruddy bloated virus infected software. The fact that most people now only know gui has meant that control of viruses has slipped away. Had console commands been the mainstay for computing, viruses and security holes would never have been allowed to proliferate as they do today.
simple@lemm.ee 6 months ago
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If this guy isn’t rolling his own distro he’s basically a scrub like the rest of us.
skulblaka@kbin.social 6 months ago
While you may be correct I think you're still missing the point. CLI is for super nerds. While you and I may know how to use it, the average person doesn't, and is unlikely to put in the effort to learn. That is the innovation that Apple made in bringing computing to the mainstream. It was precisely because people didn't have to learn how to navigate the CLI environment and instead got an easy point-and-click interface that computers caught on with the public at large, and that gained Apple an absolute ton of cash money and noteriety.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OS X has a decent terminal app and has zsh included as default shell. Mac OS 9 effectively had no CLI at all.
luthis@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Awww… I’m a supernerd? Thank yoooooou ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I always considered myself to be kind of an average run-of-the-mill nerd.
DuckOverload@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bud, you sound like a technophile geek. The kind of person who custom built his own computer. You’re not the target customer. Apple builds products for people that don’t care about technology, they just care about what the technology does and want it to be easy and seamless. And that is a vast majority of the people.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bingo. Apple builds appliances.