Comment by grishka
10 months ago
Linux makes you use the terminal and read manuals and edit configs to accomplish the most basic tasks. At least neither Windows nor macOS need that. Linux is fine for servers, but I can't fathom using that on my actual computer.
I prefer config files a lot to settings GUIs. Two most important points that come to mind:
1. I can manage them in Git 2. GUIs change all the time. With configs you have a much higher probability that some solution you googled will still work even when it is a couple of years old.
But GUIs show you all available options without having to read the docs. They only change when you install updates. You can simply not install updates that you don't like.
Linux fanboys are completely delusional, if we listened to them, we would design an airliner cockpit with a keyboard and a single display to run a terminal and input everything as commands.
They have just invested too much of their ego into knowing the arcane commands (and typing them well and fast) when it doesn't have much value, so they try to get dividends on that poor investment any way they can.
There is no reason to not make a proper GUI for pretty much everything, unless the devs are lazy or trying to save time/money.
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Windows makes you open Registry Editor and tweak completely inscrutable key/value for those.
That's a... like 20 years old talking point by now?
I mean, you can probably find _a_ Linux that's like what you say, but top Linux distros are nowhere like that.