A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
Hard disagree.
GUIs made computers/operating systems accessible. In fact, I would argue that we need even less command line in Linux distributions for the most common tasks and even those beyond that. The hardcore Linux fan won’t agree, I guess, but IMO that’s one of the ongoing needs in Linux accessibility and wider acceptance.
Good example is YasT in OpenSuse. A GUI for much of the stuff other distributions require knowledge of terminal commands, though it really is for Sys. Admins.
Mint and its big daddy Ubuntu have done well for the average user. I hope that this trend will continue and companies will support Linux better than they are now.
Drag agrees with you. Drag just had a funny conversation recently about a particular Linux tool that had a desktop version and a CLI version, and drag was asked which drag wanted. Drag would personally prefer to use it on the CLI, though drag is glad the GUI exists. And then this meme popped into drag’s head.
Such a bizarrely stupid social experiment.
We need to get normies on Linux. Full stop.
We did get normies on Linux. 70% of people use an Android phone. That’s Linux.
Linux can be dead easy to use, and normies can get used to it. It’s just a matter of the technology and the brand, both of which Valve seems to be working on lately. Linux is happening.
And how much command line does the average user use while operating their android phone?
None? As it should be??
Android uses the linux kernel. It has little to do with what we actually mean when we say linux IMHO
It’s a lot easier to get normies to use Linux if you tell them it’s what their phone runs on