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I really don’t understand the objection to using a terminal to get things done. It’s just a window that you can type text commands into. You don’t even have to come up with the commands on your own, you find the ones that solve the problem on the internet, copy and paste, and boom problem fixed. How is this different from looking up a solution to a Windows problem that walks you with a series of pictures through using Regedit or Group Policy Editor, only instead of pasting text into a terminal, you have to click through dozens of menus, trees, and tabs to find the setting you need to change? You’re still looking up solutions online in either case, but the Windows solutions require navigating windows with dozens of mouse clicks versus copying and pasting some text in Linux.

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Me: My fan doesn’t work.

Internet: To install fan copy this command into terminal.

Me: does that.

Computer: error.

Internet: ???

Me: ???

And 5 years later I still can’t turn on the fan.

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- AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is that supposed to be a real example? It’s just that fans are controlled by the BIOS, not the OS, so fixing a fan problem would usually involve updating your firmware, which I have never seen done via a terminal command.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    c u r l h t t p s : / / d o w n l o a d . a r g o n 4 0 . c o m / a r g o n 1 . s h | b a s h
    
    Thats what I’m told to do. My raspberry pi says it took…but my fan isn’t on.
    
    Take the spaces out.
    
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    AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wait, this is for a Raspberry Pi? I thought we were talking about Linux as a desktop OS. You wouldn’t run Windows on a Raspberry Pi, so while I’m sorry you’re having trouble with your Pi’s fans, I don’t see how that’s relevant to the merits of Linux as a desktop OS.
    
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well I’m trying to post the 2 line code to you, but Lemmy won’t even let me paste it here.
    
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IAmNotACat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

sudo pacman -Syu

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Windows is installing updates and may need to restart. This might take a while. :)

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