This guy’s mind is going to explode when someone introduces him to stuff like services, cron jobs, systemd triggers and timers, and unattended-upgrades.
Also, you should almost never change swappiness.
The more you get into using Linux, the more likely you are to start using the Terminal for various tasks. Now, I’ll admit that you don’t need to do everything in the Terminal. But I truly believe knowing your way around it is pretty vital to the Linux experience (for me, anyway), whether it’s learning basic short commands or playing video through the Terminal.
To make Linux more palatable to Windows and macOS users, I think it’s important to shift as much of the Linux experience away from the terminal and into GUI programs as possible.
I think these things need to exist in balance so that new users who are fleeing macOS and Windows have GUIs and programs to interact with to make managing the system easier for them at first. Leaving the terminal based methods for those with weirder/simpler tastes. As I am a mixed style user: I prefer the terminal for most things but GUI for other tasks.
I don’t think his set-up is in any way negating the push for creating GUIs and programs used to interact with the system, but it does showcase the peculiar tastes of some Linux users. Highlighting the strength of Linux distros as a whole: It can do both and do it reasonably well. Though most nerds need to be reminded to implement GUIs so that new people can gradually learn Linux. As creating a safety net, promotes a calmer user experience for those learning enough to get by and understand instructions when they need to fix the rare weird issue.
To make Linux more palatable to Windows and macOS users, I think it’s important to shift as much of the Linux experience away from the terminal and into GUI programs as possible.
this, the Linux users happy on terminal are there already, if you want more users you need a better GUI experience, most of that can be done with better official support for Flatpacks IMO. Sure I can jump into the Terminal to get Signal for my Linux desktop, update to include the Signal repo etc but… why ffs.
Sure I can jump into the Terminal to get Signal for my Linux desktop, update to include the Signal repo etc but… why ffs.
Needing to run
pacmanfrom the terminal is the biggest thing holding me back from recommending it more to others (GUIs exist but they’re either pretty complicated or they’re pamac, which has its own flaws). I’ve been semi-tempted to try writing my own, but it’s actually somewhat complicated to match the system theme across DEs.Flatpak makes it a lot simpler of course and has a nice user experience outside of the terminal, but a lot of things don’t work well as Flatpaks.
Who is this guy? Movie hacker without hands? How can you reclaim hours by running update and starting a few desktop programs (you can just leave them running) and three different *top programs?
