Newbie: Hi I just want a distro to go shopping and for family tasks.
Mechanic: You want a racing car. Lift the hood and I'll show you how to operate all the adjustments. Racing cars need lots of tuning and youll need wide tyres too.
Newbie: Can't I just drive to the shops?
Mechanic: But you need to learn under the hood first. That's what Linux is all about.
Newbie: there is also no room for shopping in this racing car.
Mechanic: there is if it's just text files. Don't bother with all that jpeg and binary bloat.
Newbie: You know, as much as I hate Windows, either I didn't need a mechanic, or got one who didn't insist open the hood to operate it.
Todays desktops from commercial and open source are all stuck in the legacy, file-app-document world. The tired old, paper inspired, pre-Internet, pre-mobile way of working. PDFs, online silos, 10 different UIs to get simple things done.
Commercial companies want to keep their monopolies and don't want to spend on any development.
FOSS Communities have little clue of what the next generation user information space will look like. And will likely copy the commercial world again when it all kicks off.
The terminal is not a good way to interact with visual tasks such as drawing, 3D modelling, and working on complex schematics or where things don't have names. Especially where the typical type of user is a visual, not a text thinker. Its not efficient to leave your working environment to go to the terminal and back either. And text thinkers are often not good at those visual tasks. So I'm not expecting terminal commands to appear in areas where I spend much of my time. I, like many, are not in IT.
Does it come in a special container to attach to some huge headphones. So people can see how serious I am about perfect sound whilst on the underground trains.
I want everyone to have the benefit of Linux. It's not just about me.
We'd then get those missing applications and drivers. And if anyone wanted to get away from the mainstream, there are distros just for that.
I need a good DE for launching apps and switching tasks. As a mouse user I found Gnome poor in launching apps. Huge mouse movements needed, and hard to lay out the launcher apps as I need them compared to Plasma. Id consider Gnome if I found a suitable replacement launcher. It would need favourites, category navigation and search.
I never do any of that. I'm sure a lot of non IT people don't either. At best they'd get an app to do specialised tasks for them.
Sadly too many gatekeepers tell people considering Linux, they must use the command line. But I never use it. So that's clearly not true for normal users.
People do use it differently. I never use the CLI on Windows or Linux. I'm not in IT. I just do everyday user things. Many of which don't even have a CLI command.
It'd be fun if Europe could shut off access to European tech such as GSM phones, ARM chips and Linux/Android. Sure its not going to happen. But many forget European tech is part of critical systems.
Yes. Also good. But if someone has hacked their bike so its no longer safe or it enters a category where it needs different insurance or registration, it is easier to enforce before any dangerous behaviour has occurred. Otherwise its often too late, after an accident.
Different user types have different capabilities. Some think in terms of text. Others are more visual. Neither is wrong. Just like a left handed person is not wrong.
Good usability is about adapting the software to the person. Not the person to the software.
For a lot of what I do there is no text command. And for many, the CLI is an unfamiliar interface. So it's a productivity disadvantage to switch over to a CLI just for a single command when the rest of the time you are in a GUI.
Yes. I agree these chatbots are another text interface like a CLI. So to me that's again a barrier to usability when I wish to refer to graphical or linked logical items on my screen that don't have any text description. I don't work in a purely text world, where usually there are no CLI commands for what im doing.
Its likely these people find a chat bot easier as they don't need to memorise a command plus modifiers exactly letter perfect. Where one mistype can fail, or worse. Two big issues people have with a CLI. And the chatbot output is made readable too. Where on a CLI it's hard to know if something worked, not being familiar with the terminology it spits out.
I think the laws where I am in Germany are stricter than the Netherlands.
But it's always worth trying more granular rules. Such as age limit, helmets for kids, fines for increasing performance, speed limit or ban in parks.
This is fairer, but much harder to police than an outright ban. But big enough fines should be a deterrent. And might be preferred by fat bikers.
Yes it is possible. I never need the terminal. If you are interested, you can usually find a GUI way if you look for one. Some people just don't look, then tell people there is no GUI for it. Not very helpful for newbies.
For those not into usability, different people work in different ways. Visual workers are not the same as text workers. So for some, CLI has poor usability and productivity.
For lots of things I do, there isn't a CLI anyway.
Software and hardware companies look at the market share to decide if its worth making a Linux version. If linux has a chunk of the market it becomes viable.
This is one issue on the topic. It was changed by nate to the kup application, then marked incorrectly as a duplicate.
Backing up should be possible with most applications. Today none can do it.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513001
It's clear we don't want US spyware.