Saying Linux is for sysadmins (or similar) is lukę saying Framework Laptop is only for repair technicians.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
“Too far” is what they’re looking for. In other words, “How much bullshit can we cram down their throats before they’ll spend an absurd amount of money on a disposable Macbook or spend their days becoming a sysadmin so they can use Linux?” Doesn’t seem that they’ve found that line yet. They’re still looking.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
…except it’s not?
kescusay@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sysadmin? You haven’t needed to be a sysadmin to run Linux for years.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Agree to disagree, I suppose. If I have to go into the terminal to do anything, that’s unacceptable. And I have to do it for everything.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 3 months ago
For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I'm on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven't had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
How about setting the default audio device?
How about changing the default power profile?
Just for starters…
kalpol@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Don’t know what you mean. Have people on opens use here, and they do just fine without the command line.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You really don’t. I don’t know what on earth you’re doing that requires it.
And I have to do bullshit like go onto powershell and the heap of shit that is the Windows registry from time to time, too. Shit, you need to enter commands to install windows with an offline account now, it’s insane.
I wish Microsoft could make Windows as user-friendly as most Linux distros are. It seems like you need to be a computer scientist to use Windows sometimes.