Was I being hyperbolic for humor? Sure. But so were you (I hope ffs) comparing learning a few commands to becoming a mechanic lol.

We’re going to have to agree to disagree that having to learn how linux works to run linux is necessarily a problem. It’s been so long since I used windows now (last was w10, not like 98, still been a few years) that now I find windows harder to use than linux cli, even with its fancy schmansy GUI. I’ve never used apple or iPhone, so I know fuck all about macOS and the few times I’ve had to touch an iPhone I literally say “ugh what the fuck is this thing, hey [friend, iPhone owner], can you make this thing do the youtube for me,” but that’s because I’m too lazy to learn the UI (because I don’t want to, because walled garden so I only use it on those rare occasions and would never buy one, but I digress), “learning” is intrinsic to “new thing,” not just “linux cli.” You’re (or whoever ykwim) just not willing to do the work to switch to “new thing,” and that’s fine, it’s not for you (of course Microsoft will hide the control panel you’re used to and make you learn a new gui way to change some setting that they keep changing back every update, for instance, but at least it’s incremental I suppose.) But not everything has to be for everyone, all is good! But it isn’t because “linux hard” nor “cli bad” nor “they are too fucking dumb to learn a few commands,” it’s because they don’t want to, people want what is familiar and many think they’re done learning the second school ends.

I also barely have to touch the CLI btw (except I choose to all the time because it’s so convenient, but I don’t have to,) I could usually use the GUI, and often do for other things that are more convenient that way. Ymmv.

Actually now that I’m thinking about it btw, being a mechanic is more analogous to working with hardware, like building a gaming rig or something. Learning an OS is more like learning how to operate that hardware. At most, you’re used to automatic, you don’t want to learn how to drive stick, but it’s not that much harder, you can, you just don’t want to.

You need the CLI more on average using linux, but many people can still get by without it. Tbh I thought I’d need it more so I learned the absolute basics it, and then it turned out I only “need” it rarely when I’m trying to do something weird or something that should be working isn’t, but I end up using it all the time because it’s just so convenient! And I learned more as I went along. Then I learned how to write basic scripts to automate stuff I wanted it to do by just chaining some of those commands together in a file, which was even more convenient. Honestly now Windows GUI is more difficult to me, I can’t just type “yo do this shit” I have to click 4000 different things.

But yeah, adobe locks you in to windows anyway, dualboot ftw! Good luck on your journey!

Tbf, of course it is better to understand what those commands do too, but it always starts there! (And maybe a youtube tutorial or two for cd, ls, pwd, history, etc.)

Man that sounds an awful lot like learning, but couldn’t be, because learning is not possible!

Just give up and exclusively use iPhones lol, they’re easier.

And yet you expect me to be able to figure out paella or my soil PH without a GUI? I’m expected to learn what color means what on these test strips and measure ingredients with different sized spoons? This is madness!

I think a good portion of the people complaining have never touched DOS, maybe CMD once or twice with a tutorial online (which sounds a whole lot like some stackexchange user teaching me about bluez, but this is scarier because they were told linux hard.)

If I can’t be expected to remember sudo dnf update -y why would I be able to remember a whole ass recipe, or how to care for plants, or how to change my oil? There’s no GUI to tell me how much nitrogen my soil needs, I can’t be expected to learn anything!

It’s always going to feel like this even if you never need a terminal for one simple reason:

When you google “how to XX on linux,” you’re going to find a stackexchange page where someone else asked, and someone answered with a terminal command instead of “Ok what DE are you using? Ok, so you’re gonna want to click these seventeen different menu options, and I don’t remember them without looking at them myself.” It’s just always going to be easier to send someone a string of ~30char to type than to try and figure out their GUI without screensharing.

Ya feet smell lurid.

Well look it up.

Ngl, I use mine almost every day.

My car is old enough that I can replay with no desync, I use it to keep my car running and locked when it’s cold and I pop in for some food on break at work, or if my remote dies; it has every remote in my house in it, xbox one, my living room tv, my bedroom tv, my workshop CRT with the lost remote, my ceiling fan, and can be used on all other IR or (almost all) subghz devices I encounter; my local bar was real loose with the touchtunes remote one tuesday afternoon when I totally wasn’t in to copy specifically that (I gave the bartender rides home when she had a DUI, they’re cool with me) and I was able to copy it, now I can control the volume outside (among other things but I’m responsible with my powers, I only skip Rick Springfield and Don McClean); a couple of my friends no longer need to worry about giving me keys when I feed their cat because RFID, and I “have” a gym membership now (the gym allows sharing, probably not specifically cloning but they’ll never know); I can send myself Pokemon Silver mystery gifts on the GBC, and I have a GPIO board with a link cable to trade pokemon in too; marauder/evil portal is a little too malicious for me but it’s neat, and flipperHTTP is cool too; some of the GoodUSB stuff is cool; I have a 2gb flashdrive image on it I can use in a pinch; and tbh I’m sure there’s more I left out.

Though yeah “we don’t even have a baby dept in this location” and “since when are our CVS announcements in spanish?!” are priceless lmao.

PLA+ is too bendy, confirmed. It “works” but I needed to use a separate tool like a tension wrench to turn the lock.

Those are called “doorbells” now.

So others can’t get out? So others still can’t come in? So we don’t let out all the AC?

Find out next time on: Puzzling Commentary!™

this has been a Desilu presentation.

Thank you!

True!

In english (amongst other languages), the letter “u” can be pronounced two ways.

I’ll take one!

Lol that means something completely different in spanish haha. Spelled puta though.

How is that pu pronounced? Like pew or poo?

Tbf, fuck Bam, I’d be mad if they removed him from the remake though, because he was in the original. I also think they should bring back all the secret skaters, though I know that may be unrealistic because of the copyright on some like Darth Maul.