• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Very necessary

    No it absolutely is not. When you’re looking up guides and come across an unfamiliar command, don’t copy and paste it and find out what it does. Google it. Man it. Research it. Stop copying and pasting commands you don’t understand.

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      1 month ago

      My point is that if that is the case (and I do understand why) then i can’t possibly recommend Linux to people that don’t want their OS to be their hobby, because as for my experience they will come across something that needs some command line input.

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        1 month ago

        They will come across something that needs some command line input

        I would genuinely be surprised if you could give me an example of a command that can’t be replicated with a GUI in some way

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          Lots of install instructions are based on commands. If you know what they are doing, you might be able to replace them, but then you already understand them, so…