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0 pointsxnyan5y ago0 comments

I grew up all-GUI windows kid. I actually had a revulsion to the shell, mostly because it seemed unfriendly and scary. In my early 20s I tried to run Plex on a Windows 7 box and it was miserable. I forced myself to lean by switching to a headless arch linux box.

Giving up the idea that CLI = pain (i.e figuring out how to to navigate a file system, ssh keys, etc) for sure was a learning curve, but now I can't imagine using computers without it.

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dvirsky5y ago

I guess that's the issue with terminal - the learning curve. I did start with TUIs as a kid before Windows came along, and I remember that feeling when I started using GUIs - "oh, everything has a menu, no need to remember anything, no need to read any docs, it's all just there". That was a real revolution.

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0 pointsxnyan5y ago0 comments

Giving up the idea that CLI = pain (i.e figuring out how to to navigate a file system, ssh keys, etc) for sure was a learning curve, but now I can't imagine using computers without it.

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dvirsky5y ago

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