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>Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?
It wasn't hard for the decades before GUIs. Why is it hard now? Are you conflating not knowing with being hard?
>It's because they don't know what the options are. They don't even know what they don't know.
The same criticism applies for voice interfaces. If the users can expect the command line interface to be similarly intuitive, then it becomes easy.
>This isn't going to change anytime soon. At least not until terminal commands are taught in school alongside the alphabet and multiplication tables.
Why do they need to be taught commands? Maybe the command processors need to be taught different ways commands can be expressed and composed.
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>Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?
It wasn't hard for the decades before GUIs. Why is it hard now? Are you conflating not knowing with being hard?
>It's because they don't know what the options are. They don't even know what they don't know.
The same criticism applies for voice interfaces. If the users can expect the command line interface to be similarly intuitive, then it becomes easy.
>This isn't going to change anytime soon. At least not until terminal commands are taught in school alongside the alphabet and multiplication tables.
Why do they need to be taught commands? Maybe the command processors need to be taught different ways commands can be expressed and composed.