I never said I, nor do I, expect shit from anyone. I don't blame people for not knowing how it works. This is exactly why I teach people with patience and understanding. Your assuming a lot of things about my stance based of your image of certain linux people. Please read what people actually say,, thank you.

PS.

People know I do computer stuff.

They ask me how to get away from microsoft.

I help them install mint.

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Mint breaks because linux always does (I love it, but it's just true)

They expect me to fix it, so I usually just start by teaching them how to fix things in the terminal.

It's just responsible linux ownership. I don't understand why it's different then knowing how to use a taskmanager gui in windows.

Can we please stop always pretending that people doing more then checking their email will be fine with linux without even touching a terminal. It's just a lie we try and pedal to convince people to switch. It's honestly kind of immoral tbh. It's not fair the terminal is needed and I do love that teams are taking the initiative to make it accessable, but goddamn! Let's stop lying about linux not being a bit finicky and sometimes requiring 1 or 2 lines of terminal code occassionally to work fine.

PPS.

There is a reason we teach people to change a flat tire if they own a car, and noone is yelling about that being "the reason noone wants a car".

"And type systemsettings5, hit enter"

Listen, it's OK if you have the terminal jitters still. It is really OK. But learning more about how the kind of thing we interact with increasingly often works (that being software, devices, etc.) has never hurt. And maybe it's just me, but I tend to think learning is good for stimulating the brain. And that is exactly what people need more of in the age of algorithms.

I'm sorry, but learning basic syntaxing and a handful of things about how your device actually functions cannot be a bad thing. And it is certainly not even sysadmin level stuff to teach a person. It's not even as complicated as algebra (middle to high school level stuff).

My source for my opinion on it's difficulty is based off from 10+ people of varying degrees of tech litaracy that I have helped learn some terminal things and they all picked it basically right up. It is fully reasonable to teach someone a new skill, so I don't understand the anti-terminal crowd such as yourself.

And yes, if they happen to have a gui that already does the thing they need, I tell them to use that. You took my meme to a rude place I think....

kernal bug disables their graphics driver

they have no gui and have never learned how to run a command

noone's there to help them learn this time

they cry and uninstall linux (the graphics could be fixed with a one-liner if they had learned to not have terminal phobia)

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