nano's old account's rotting corpseJan 1, 2024
"guys installing apps on linux is way easier all you do is <insert 3 or 4 worded command here>"

we literally have a ton of really polished gui app store apps that act as a frontend for flatpak and binary package managers, did we just forget those existed?

kde discover? mint software manager? gnome software? pop shop? appcenter? thats what you SHOULD be talking about, not this unintuitive command line shit -.-

do you really expect a windows user to install linux for the first time and think "ah yes time to open a terminal" so they can install their favourite web browser? get real. theyre gonna click on the shopping bag
Show threadAndreas, DJ3EI, he/him

I think you totally nail it:

> all you do is <insert 3 or 4 worded command here>

Now describe doing the same with some UI. How many screen shots do you need, to replace those three or four words?

If it only has a UI and no command line, it rather leaves every user stranded on their own. To share, a command line is so much better!

@nano @Natanox

Jan 1, 2024 at 9:29pmWeb
Show threadnano's old account's rotting corpseJan 1, 2024
@dj3ei @Natanox it doesnt need to be described, its intuitive, the words are on the screen, you just have to click on them. the future is now old man
Show threadDUVERGIER ClaudeJan 2, 2024
@nano @dj3ei @Natanox Not all GUI are intuitive…
Also:
• Packages/snap/… managers changes from one distribution to another.
• The name of the GUI application is often localized.
Show threadLisPiJan 3, 2024
@nano @dj3ei @Natanox You say that, but I interaction with words done properly hasn't ever caught on.

Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Interlisp and Plan9 all tried and succeeded to varying degrees but they never caught on. McCLIM has similar capacities too.