Not true at all. Anyone can simply click and scroll around a GUI to find what they need. The terminal is a literal black box that can’t do anything unless you know explicitly and exactly what to tell it.
Funny enough from experience having less GUI made it easier to learn.
I started really using computers when I was introduced to the revolutionary concept of the internet in 2020.
GUI did not seem much universal. Every app still has their own thing going on and I could not tell what are common to each.
As example I was never told you can right-click on stuff other than desktop files, so I just assumed you couldn’t until I saw someone right click google’s bookmarks space one day.
Also following a year old guide on programming felt outdated because youtube tutorial used the other visual studio and I assumed it was just the versions looking different while the “cc” command from a book written in 80s just worked on linux terminal.
The main problem I had was remembering the commands and options but even that clicked over time.
Most people do not know or care how computers work, nor should they. They only need to know how to use them as a tool to complete their tasks. Not having a GUI makes those tasks monumental in comparison. That’s why the GUI was created, after the terminal, and why virtually everyone uses it by default.
Ultich, dont take this the wrong way, but thats how you are using systems and thats how you see them. It is your perspective, not everyones perspective.
Computers are not just one thing, one tool. They can be, they are, many times. But for many of us they are hobbies, a thing to tinker and experiment with, thats who you the the pretty UIs from.
I get that ignorance is bliss, but you can not paint the whole ecosystem with the same brush. People are different. Generally yeah, you are right, but it is also a very ignorant way to look at things.
I wasn’t talking about me personally. I was talking about the vast majority of people. You know, the other 97% of computer users that elect to use something other than Linux.
No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.
Not true at all. Anyone can simply click and scroll around a GUI to find what they need. The terminal is a literal black box that can’t do anything unless you know explicitly and exactly what to tell it.
Funny enough from experience having less GUI made it easier to learn.
I started really using computers when I was introduced to the revolutionary concept of the internet in 2020.
GUI did not seem much universal. Every app still has their own thing going on and I could not tell what are common to each.
As example I was never told you can right-click on stuff other than desktop files, so I just assumed you couldn’t until I saw someone right click google’s bookmarks space one day.
Also following a year old guide on programming felt outdated because youtube tutorial used the other visual studio and I assumed it was just the versions looking different while the “cc” command from a book written in 80s just worked on linux terminal.
The main problem I had was remembering the commands and options but even that clicked over time.
Most people do not know or care how computers work, nor should they. They only need to know how to use them as a tool to complete their tasks. Not having a GUI makes those tasks monumental in comparison. That’s why the GUI was created, after the terminal, and why virtually everyone uses it by default.
Ultich, dont take this the wrong way, but thats how you are using systems and thats how you see them. It is your perspective, not everyones perspective.
Computers are not just one thing, one tool. They can be, they are, many times. But for many of us they are hobbies, a thing to tinker and experiment with, thats who you the the pretty UIs from.
I get that ignorance is bliss, but you can not paint the whole ecosystem with the same brush. People are different. Generally yeah, you are right, but it is also a very ignorant way to look at things.
I wasn’t talking about me personally. I was talking about the vast majority of people. You know, the other 97% of computer users that elect to use something other than Linux.