alt Hacker NewsThe "like an adult" is what has and will continue to hold back linux on the desktop. Always gatekeeping less technical users instead of acknowledging adoption and ease of use are critical.
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8note • last Tuesday at 7:29 PM
i dunno, nothing about most computing is particularly easy to use or intuitive.
what has worked over time is having computers of various types in schools, where teachers teach students and let them play with it.
nobody teaches about the command line, so nobody knows what to do with it. its also inscrutible without a useable help view, unless you already know how to use the terminal
Is this stance gate keeping users? Isn't a pkg manager installation also a one liner? This seems more like gate keeping lazy distributors.