On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 11:44, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> [...] > I can't fathom how anybody could be a computer user and have no > experience with using a CLI. It's staggering that there are computer > users who've never written a program before (and the idea of non- > computer nerds wanting to use computers is odd, too). When I was > young, we had no OS (beyond a disc loader), we had to create our own > programs (usually on pen and paper, first). And I find it impossible > to believe the idea that someone could create software solely using > GUI. > This is called "culture clash". There is a lot of going around. I grew up in a small town with the cultural variety of New York City but too few of any group outside the indigenous locals to make it possible for anyone to avoid daily contact with multiple other cultures. Auto repair shops, for example, were mostly owned by Eastern Europeans but often had to hire and train locals whose only experience was with horse drawn wagons, etc. We all learned to laugh about cultural differences when they came up. Before retiring I tried to help some colleagues get started on Python using "Learn Python the Hard Way" but they all gave up after a few lessons and went back to Excel (it didn't help that IT had the attitude: "they can do it all in Excel"). Now I work with big GUI systems from ESA and NASA that allow many users to do their work without meeting a command-line, but the systems are far from robust and as soon as something breaks, command-line tools are required to sort them out. -- George N. White III
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