I really don't like how "consumer-friendly" means "GUI that resembles Windows" in the minds of so many people.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Gotta meet the customer where they are, not where you would like them to be. Most people don't want to learn a new thing.
You gotta meet the customer halfway until you get enough of them hooked, then slowly start introducing new ideas into their mental ecosystems that align with your vision.
Well, it definitely works when shifting people politically.
Coming soon: Mockrosoft Overton Windows™
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Windows wasn't first, Xerox was
Xerox did so much for modern computing. If only people knew.
The company was run by morons so "Xerox" deserves being synonymous with "company run by morons". But the actual Xerox employees who invented the basic GUI deserve credit for being the great inventors they were. Unfortunately I have no fucking idea who those actual people were.
Take a look at this post. It covers some names and stories about contributions that make modern interfaces what they are today.
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But no person on the planet, except the nerdiest of pedants, are thinking of Xerox when they see Windows interface. They think of Windows, even if it's KDE
I like the terminal but don't remember all the arguments. I find that clunky. That's my main issue with it. (I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any)
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I tried Plasma, it was for only half an hour.....
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The only GUI library you need is ncurses.
There’s no escape from ANSII escape characters!
The purpose of Unix was to be user friendly. And it is. You haven't seen what it replaced.
Also friendliness doesn't require a Fisher Price interface.
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I don't even see the symbols anymore
btop be like
That's defintiely the wrong title.
No, it's not the user catching Linux in trying to pretend user friendliness witht the terminal.
It's Linux catching the user in still hating it when he gets the wanted user friendliness, for the sole reason of being conditioned to hate the terminal.
How do people use Windows without CLI?
It’s way harder to GUI-only than Linux
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If you are able to use those buttons in the terminal, it wouldn't be a terminal.
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Is this actually a thing?
Prepare for your mind to be blown: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles
You have no idea how many scripts I'm going to build with that...
Ranger
Ranger is also incidentally the name of my dog.
A pupper so swell they named an OS after him!
An icon
Tell Ranger I said hi, and that he needs a treat.
Midnight Commander has been around for ages. It's a straight ripoff/homage to the original Norton Commander, a full-fledged file manager and a godsend on week-kneed machines (like old netbooks).
There's TUIFI Manager
twin, directfb2, and gum, pytermgui too.
edit: huh, gum and bubbles are from the same guy. But bubbles is for Go, gum for shell.
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Yes. k9s comes to my mind.
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Speaking of a terminal displaying symbols, I still really miss slrn. I'd love a Lemmy client with that interface.
bb showed us what the terminal can really do
I find ASCII incredibly readable honestly. I use pixel fonts too, but I love the sharp blocky characters it's so much easier on the eyes than whatever windows or iOS has going on by default
500GB? Teeny drive
Man I'm just poor
I run 128gb on my laptop lol
Wait, how? I have zero games installed on my 1TB laptop and still only have like 300GB free.
Not everyone has a 500 GB yiff collection. Some people keep their yiff in the cloud.
HAHAHA.
Did you try removing the French language pack?
I want to get 2-4 TB because of torrents
@olafurp @AlecSadler What kind of data hoader are you?!
I mean, if you can afford that sure, but I find it unnecesary.
Also, how do you plan to backup that much storage? just curious about the last one, I always find it hard to backup more than 100 GB of media
Jellyfin hoarder type. My dream setup is something like 16TB bay with a Raspberri pi
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Remind me of flappy bird in finder: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/
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