@AliothFox I think a lot of people misunderstand why Linux users tend to use the the terminal. It's not that you have to use it, it's that there are a ton of tasks that are easier in it. ​ It's a very slippery slope where you go into it very tacitly to copy a command into it that the internet told you about, then suddenly you're, like, "oh hey this is kinda nice ​ I wonder if I can do... *boopboop* oh HECK that works!!" and it's all downhill from there.

But yeah, there's almost *always* a GUI for something you wanna do. ​ It can be a little hard to find that GUI since a lot of Linux help sites are just, like, "here just copy this command" which is definitely a problem for people trying to avoid terminal. ​

@AliothFox Yeah that used to happen all the time actually. ​ There's a reason rm -rf / is a meme. Nowadays it's safer since support sites are a bit more centralized and curated, but it's still definitely a thing that can happen.

Usually the bigger problem is people overestimating what they can do in terminal and then breaking their system. The biggest issue I see tech literate Windows users facing is that they come to Linux, start messing with a bunch of stuff, lack the knowledge to fix it, then swear off Linux as broken, usually while trying to make Linux behave exactly like Windows which, like, it never will. ​

A lot of people encourage Windows users by saying that Linux is the same as Windows, and in a lot of ways it is, but they also need to be encouraged to try and adapt to some new things that (imho) are actually better. Like not downloading random .exe's from the internet. ​

(sorry I always somehow manage to ramble ;^; I need an editor)