2018-08-31 at 8:09 PM UTC
Hardware support is pretty good in 2018, at least commodity hardware. some gay 80 function gaymen mouse/dildo might not work but then you're a scrub if you use that anyway.
If "normal people" wanting to use something means never editing a text file, never opening a terminal, and never building from source then traditional linux systems are not for "normal people". Some distros are fairly successful in trying to paint over this but I'm pretty skeptical of the value in trying to ape the dominant proprietary paradigm. The text based shell is not some vestigial feature that's meant to be hidden behind layers of skeuomorphic menus, it has both philosophical and practical design advantages. You might think no mere mortal could ever learn how to use it but is it really all that more complex than memorizing contemporary (and wildly inconsistent) iconography or keyboard shortcuts? I'd argue it's much simpler, although there are certainly discoverability issues. As long as people learn to use WIMP descended interface families the CLI is always going to look either incomprehensible or like a paradigm shift, but the reality is that it's little more than a cultural bias.
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2018-08-31 at 8:18 PM UTC
Everyone who is good on computers is mentally ill silly, if they weren't they'd choose to be good at something else.
2018-08-31 at 8:21 PM UTC
Don't assume my mouses pronouns and sexual identity or gender prefences, you dirty pig-beast. Funny that a simple mouse connecting with rs232 works automatically on the same hardware setup in windows 98 and windows 2000. Seems like maybe the linx was confused that i didn't have a fagtard mouse with 90000 dots per inch lazerbeem and a clitty between the clickers. everyone knows linx users like urself love to rub their clittys when they go teach the computer how to read the most simple and straightforward data coming from a plain mouse
2018-08-31 at 8:47 PM UTC
"my mouse doesn't work, whaaaa, no normal person could EVER learn to use this system!"
Fuck you bitch, throw your mouse out the window and use the CLI like a real man.
2018-09-01 at 12:19 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
this thread is even more retarded than the thread linked in OP
congrats faggots
2018-09-03 at 7:40 PM UTC
I use linux and I'm a completely normal person. I'm just like everyone else.
2018-09-03 at 7:44 PM UTC
>/pol/
I seriously hope you guys don't do this