Under perfect circumstances, nothing should require CLI crap.
Just saw this old post and want to announce my agreement. Good GUI > Good CLI.
And look at the only instances where the public has accepted Linux: Android, Chrome OS, etc., whose highest virtue is hiding the ugliness and messiness of Linux by having highly controlled hardware environment and a shiny custom UI to hide the Linux.
And all the gNu/LiNuX dumbos here and elsewhere completely miss the fact that Android, Chrome OS and most likely this, have nothing to do with GNU and only opportunistically using “Linux”.
so more than half of phone users unwittingly use linux, windows now ships with linux kernel, the enterprise prefers linux and gaming is fully viable with it now too.
Personal preference, I like to know exactly how things work on my PC. I can do that with linux, i can debug bluetooth, debug wireless, debug hardware failures etc easily. Customise the GUI when i want to and have a stable system that works exactly the way i want it to. I don't need to format my system on Linux because you can properly debug and manage it properly, OSX is the same but boring, Windows is just terrible where powerusers format the system if they run into problems as a way of debugging
Look it's a fine OS when the GUI hides the messy parts. but it is far from polished and every now and then (quite frequently actually) you have to spend time wading through config files and docs to make something work. Most people are not interested in wasting time this way. I use Debian which is supposed to be rock solid and about as far from bleeding edge as you can get, but I have still had many instances where things needed tinkering to work correctly. Bluetooth, network config/wireless drivers etc. Doesn't bother me but I can see it's hardly user friendly.
This is fully untrue. I run already 5 years Linux on my main laptop I use overseas. There is zero tweaking involved. Zero. You are doing something wrong if this is your experience. You tweak during first install, you tweak and retweak, but once fully configured, there is zero tweaks needed!
The average GPU UPDATE DOT EXE process results in more tweaking it seems
Well, there were shitty drivers for certain radio chips which did require messing around (not on Debian but generally), but the situation should be stable enough now.
Everything just works out of the box now, so no need to tinker with anything lol Gaming is not there, but improving, and I'd rather have no gaming, than the alternative shit on offer, which is a rat infested dung pile heap of disease, festering at all corners, and folding inwards to meet the utter turd that it is, while spouting out utter shit trodden waste, ready to be foot pathed back into the shit it is.
I can barely understand you, but gaming is there. My dell xps (shitty intel chipset) runs emulators fine, plays mame and PSP fine, dosbox works great for classic/good games, plays 2D indy games fine, rimworld, factorio, crosscode, tangledeep, platformers unepic, chasm, axiom verge, ghost etc.
I guess it depends what games you find "good". Side note, I have a 3080 and windows here, hmm lets see what games do i like that need this rig? RE franchise, played Control (wasn't bad), flight sim would be worth it.. *scratches head, end of list*, looks at PC gaming thread, 85% crap games on 2 pages, the 15% interesting ones are either 2D or 15 year old games remade (I have no need to revisit either)
And all the gNu/LiNuX dumbos here and elsewhere completely miss the fact that Android, Chrome OS and most likely this, have nothing to do with GNU and only opportunistically using “Linux”.
It seems obvious that most people do not really care about open source software. And some do a little bit. Convenience is the easily the driving factor.
And on that note, GUIs have higher potential convenience than terminal anything, I would say.
the whole world runs on open-source software. Essentially all the technology end users consume is built using open-source software. Ease of use for non-technical users will always be GUI driven, that's its purpose.
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God, I love Linux now
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so more than half of phone users unwittingly use linux, windows now ships with linux kernel, the enterprise prefers linux and gaming is fully viable with it now too.
linux is a bAd oS!
the whole world runs on open-source software. Essentially all the technology end users consume is built using open-source software. Ease of use for non-technical users will always be GUI driven, that's its purpose.
