Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren’t people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I’ll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.

Let me guess, libs who dislike “tankie instances”?

Tbf, a lot of versions of Windows sucked.

(I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That’d be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)

Nice. Always neat to see that virus removed from a home. Are you running a Windows free home, then, or is it just your own individual tech that’s malware free?

Huh, never seen that comm before in the Linux comms. And the link returns an error for me.

I am convinced that everyone, including kids, should be forced to learn computers starting from a command line only. “You can’t have a GUI until you can operate competently without one.” Admittedly, I’m useless with a terminal myself, and a little scared of 'em, but that’s actually why I think this. I wish I wasn’t so scared of the CLI and reliant on “pointing and grunting” rather than “using my words”. I wish I hadn’t “learned computers” starting at 4 with shortcuts that make things easier but abstract away things I really should have had to know from the beginning.

We call them Tupperware parties where I’m from too, I think the comic just implies it said “container party” or similar to make the wordplay work.

I suppose that would be good for emergencies or less than ideal situations, for all you “terminal junkies” out there, but… I tend to avoid the terminal in the first place, so I wouldn’t really have a need for such a thing or understand what people would use it for.

That really sounds like hardware designers being very mean to programmers and terminal junkies, for sure.

I’ve never really understood the appeal of having a terminal app on your phone, for this reason - I get the cool factor, Android is based on Linux so being able to get deep into things and have terminal access to stuff on your handheld device, that follows the same conventions and standards as any more traditional computer you use at home does, is neat, sure, but actually seriously using a CLI with a phone keyboard sounds very frustrating.

Tbh, I don’t hate CLI utilities or MC type “terminal interface” stuff. Honestly, if they are well documented and user friendly, I sometimes actually prefer them over a complex GUI cluttered with 20 options that aren’t the one thing I need. This isn’t about people using/recommending well documented, simple CLI tools that make complete computer idiots like me feel powerful and really don’t need a graphical frontend anyway. This is about people who insist on doing everything in a terminal window or in the TTY (and not even having a window manager installed), just for the sake of it, even when it comes to tasks where using the terminal really makes no sense.

I dunno. I still think the types of graphical tools we have today are better than a chatbot for an interface. I often struggle with explaining what I want in a way that such a tool would actually return anything useful. I might try it once or twice, but I’d probably go back to a standard graphical interface pretty quick. I’m not a “terminal junkie” or particularly technical, but I absolutely hate the idea of a computer you have to talk to like it’s a person, I suck at dealing with people.

Tbf, that is one thing about GUIs that certainly frustrates a lot of people. And I do quite like the concept of programs and utilities that can be used from a separate graphical interface that you only have to install if you want it, or via a command line, those are neat and an excellent example of a tool that can be used by the completely non-technical and also still provide useful functionality to power-users.

Yeep. I don’t need a hallucination machine between me and my computer. I hate having to use the CLI, but that’s still better than a fucking chatbot getting in my way.

That seems extremely frustrating to use. I don’t want or need that compared to what’s currently available.

And of course, there will always be people who want direct access to the underlying command line. Which is unsurprising now and will still be unsurprising in another 20 years.

Terminals do make more sense, if you know all the commands. And I must admit, “say the magic words and the computer does the thing” is pretty neat and makes me feel powerful.

The cat one is funny. That seems like a neat party trick.

Yep. Standards are definitely useful. Stick to the standards. If you don’t know enough to know why you’d want something counter to the standard thing, then you don’t need to be messing with that thing.

Tbh, not sure about the seat. The guy might be fun to start a “best distro” argue-til-blue-in-the-face-about-something-pointless with, and the wolves… if you feed them, you’ll have a pack of cute puppies who want their bellies rubbed, and I like dogs…

I’d suggest AntiX, as it’s great for crappy hardware and a personal favourite of mine, but seeing as I chose Mint for my first distro that stayed installed more than a day, after I broke AntiX and couldn’t figure out what I even broke or how to fix it… (don’t ask who recommended that as a beginner distro to my clueless self…) yeah. Mint. Maybe go with XFCE or something rather than Cinnamon, modern DEs take up a lot of resources on an already chugging shitbox.

Fun. Reminds me of an image I found on Tumblr, from one of the Linux gimmick blogs, IIRC…