Using Linux is definately a skill that can be mastered. A Linux user can practice and learn a powerful set of tools which have developed over decades.
The scripts I write for my laptop using this powerful toolset can be ported across devices to my phone, my server, my mp3 player, my router etc.
With a closed source GUI OS you are basically just pushing buttons, no different than changing the channel on a television. You are using a limited interface that had been designed for you. You can only do what the owner of the OS has decided you can do with your device. You cant modify it, if the author changes it, removes features, adds features that work against your interests you are powerless.
On a Mac or windows GUI you are using a consumer product in a limited context whereas with Linux you are truly mastering electronics.
that’s why i like linux but if we ever want the year of the linux desktop it needs distros to be more gui orientaded normal users get overwhelmed if they even see a terminal window for a second
no ‘year of the linux desktop’ leave it to the savvy (me, using immutable with distrobox arch), wait for ppl to get really unsatisfied with the enshittification of mainstream OS’s
OS X is literally a heavily modified version of FreeBSD with a very shiny GUI.
It ships with a terminal that has zsh installed by default, and homebrew is a decent package manager. You can write scripts for it in precisely the same way you do for Linux.
It being closed source means you can’t edit the OS itself. And there’s certainly a bunch of weird stuff that it does. But mastering linux and mastering OS X are pretty similar things.
Using Linux is definately a skill that can be mastered. A Linux user can practice and learn a powerful set of tools which have developed over decades.
The scripts I write for my laptop using this powerful toolset can be ported across devices to my phone, my server, my mp3 player, my router etc.
With a closed source GUI OS you are basically just pushing buttons, no different than changing the channel on a television. You are using a limited interface that had been designed for you. You can only do what the owner of the OS has decided you can do with your device. You cant modify it, if the author changes it, removes features, adds features that work against your interests you are powerless.
On a Mac or windows GUI you are using a consumer product in a limited context whereas with Linux you are truly mastering electronics.
that’s why i like linux but if we ever want the year of the linux desktop it needs distros to be more gui orientaded normal users get overwhelmed if they even see a terminal window for a second
People use the phrase “year of the Linux desktop” unironically?
sadly yes i just used it to make a point ^^ in my opponion linix will never really be the dominant os
I think we don’t have enough people working in the DEs (Gnome and KDE, mainly) in order to achieve it.
no ‘year of the linux desktop’ leave it to the savvy (me, using immutable with distrobox arch), wait for ppl to get really unsatisfied with the enshittification of mainstream OS’s
You can get by just fine without the Terminal.
It’s called a GUI package manager…
MacOS uses Bash/ZSH…
If you write the scripts in a POSIX way, you can serve both MacOS & Linux with the same script.
OS X is literally a heavily modified version of FreeBSD with a very shiny GUI.
It ships with a terminal that has zsh installed by default, and homebrew is a decent package manager. You can write scripts for it in precisely the same way you do for Linux.
It being closed source means you can’t edit the OS itself. And there’s certainly a bunch of weird stuff that it does. But mastering linux and mastering OS X are pretty similar things.