To be a bit less flippant, the analogy isn't far off.
Reading terminal instructions that you can easily copy/paste is a hell of a lot easier than watching a video and clicking around menus.
The issues that you're having wouldn't be any easier if they showed in a GUI. Yeah, things with GUI can be more polished, but that's a result of the effort in that product, and not a result.of the GUI.
I sympathize with what I believe is your main point, that Linux people often are condescending and refuse to make things user friendly, whether that's in a GUI or in the terminal. But the terminal itself shouldn't be too daunting.
The issue here is that there isn't really a way to ban anyone. No matter how many times they vote or how many AI chat bots they use to keep their accounts active.
"Principled" is the wrong word. "Naive" might be better. "Cowardly" with rationalization could work.
They believed it would damage the country to have a jury of 12 put Trump in prison rather than a jury of 375 million. It would damage the country. The best possible outcome was Dems win the election and then Trump sees justice. Intolerance bring fascisms, so they fought fascism with tolerance. This is the result of their actions AND our actions.
It was convenient to pass the buck onto the American voters because it meant they didn't have to do anything.
The Nazis are back. The late 90s weren't significantly more racist than today. Words were thrown around more. Fewer people had black bags thrown over their head before being deported to El Salvador.
That's right, we've made very little progress in 30 years. Some on the queer front, but not the LG part.
If there's any one country, it's primarily Russia that's the black hole. Just because we're farther down the hole than you are doesn't make us the primary culprit.
Meanwhile China's just sitting back and benefiting from pretty much everything. They're passive enough about it that they might not be running it, just damn if they ain't coming out on top at the end of all this.
Shouldn't it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I'm home I'm using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.
It's already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.
Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they're suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.
To be a bit less flippant, the analogy isn't far off.
Reading terminal instructions that you can easily copy/paste is a hell of a lot easier than watching a video and clicking around menus.
The issues that you're having wouldn't be any easier if they showed in a GUI. Yeah, things with GUI can be more polished, but that's a result of the effort in that product, and not a result.of the GUI.
I sympathize with what I believe is your main point, that Linux people often are condescending and refuse to make things user friendly, whether that's in a GUI or in the terminal. But the terminal itself shouldn't be too daunting.