Listen, it’s OK if you have the terminal jitters still. It is really OK. But learning more about how the kind of thing we interact with increasingly often works (that being software, devices, etc.) has never hurt. And maybe it’s just me, but I tend to think learning is good for stimulating the brain. And that is exactly what people need more of in the age of algorithms.
I’m sorry, but learning basic syntaxing and a handful of things about how your device actually functions cannot be a bad thing. And it is certainly not even sysadmin level stuff to teach a person. It’s not even as complicated as algebra (middle to high school level stuff).
My source for my opinion on it’s difficulty is based off from 10+ people of varying degrees of tech litaracy that I have helped learn some terminal things and they all picked it basically right up. It is fully reasonable to teach someone a new skill, so I don’t understand the anti-terminal crowd such as yourself.
And yes, if they happen to have a gui that already does the thing they need, I tell them to use that. You took my meme to a rude place I think…
That’s exactly the kind of belittling behaviour I’m criticizing.
I’m a sysadmin. I’d just like to see everyone be free from extortion and am fed up with the alienating culture within the Linux- and, partially, hacking community. There’s of course nothing against learning, but a lot against expecting people who just want to be on a boat trip to somewhere to slowly become sailors and blaming them when they’re afraid of messing with core elements of the boat with specialized tools. They’ll rather go to the overly friendly but creepy guy on the other boating service (Windows), as with them they at least know they’ll arrive their actual destination.
They very well might even be fully preoccupied with being someone you as a sailor depend on and have neither time nor interest to divest from that.
Then of course there is the accessibility aspect for disabled people (which also includes GUI and not just screenreaders, different people have different needs), but that’s not a can of worms we should open or I may explode in your face.
Your meme isn’t the issue. Your expectations and the way you belittle people is.
Listen, it’s OK if you have the terminal jitters still. It is really OK. But learning more about how the kind of thing we interact with increasingly often works (that being software, devices, etc.) has never hurt. And maybe it’s just me, but I tend to think learning is good for stimulating the brain. And that is exactly what people need more of in the age of algorithms.
I’m sorry, but learning basic syntaxing and a handful of things about how your device actually functions cannot be a bad thing. And it is certainly not even sysadmin level stuff to teach a person. It’s not even as complicated as algebra (middle to high school level stuff).
My source for my opinion on it’s difficulty is based off from 10+ people of varying degrees of tech litaracy that I have helped learn some terminal things and they all picked it basically right up. It is fully reasonable to teach someone a new skill, so I don’t understand the anti-terminal crowd such as yourself.
And yes, if they happen to have a gui that already does the thing they need, I tell them to use that. You took my meme to a rude place I think…
That’s exactly the kind of belittling behaviour I’m criticizing. I’m a sysadmin. I’d just like to see everyone be free from extortion and am fed up with the alienating culture within the Linux- and, partially, hacking community. There’s of course nothing against learning, but a lot against expecting people who just want to be on a boat trip to somewhere to slowly become sailors and blaming them when they’re afraid of messing with core elements of the boat with specialized tools. They’ll rather go to the overly friendly but creepy guy on the other boating service (Windows), as with them they at least know they’ll arrive their actual destination. They very well might even be fully preoccupied with being someone you as a sailor depend on and have neither time nor interest to divest from that.
Then of course there is the accessibility aspect for disabled people (which also includes GUI and not just screenreaders, different people have different needs), but that’s not a can of worms we should open or I may explode in your face.
Your meme isn’t the issue. Your expectations and the way you belittle people is.