Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by themartorana on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @10:46PM (#12047213)

It's not that simple. The shell for you and me is muscle memory. For someone who takes a "boot camp" and then doesn't use what they've learned for 3 weeks, the boot camp was a waste of time.

Haven't you ever come back to a piece of code from a month ago and had to reacquaint yourself with it? (I know I can't be unique in that... ;) ) We cram an awful lot into our heads as devs, there's no room for things we barely use from a month ago.

To you, the shell may be perfect. For someone else, it's a severely antiquated method of input that was outdated after Windows 3.1.

I love me some shell, but that's you and me. Not all devs.

Edit: reminds me of CPR class. After a month or so, you better brush up lest you actually need to use it!

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by nameless912 on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @10:50PM (#12047228)

Here's what you do: in the middle of the night, sneak into all of your devs' offices and fuck with their xorg.conf's. Make them drop to command line only for a couple weeks (because we all know it takes at least that long to diagnose an xorg.conf....) and they'll learn. Oh they'll learn ;)

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by chii on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:20PM (#12047304)

That's like saying you drop a modern human in the middle of the jungle, and tell em to survive for a week. I'm sure they'll "learn", or die trying but is that really a good way to do it?!

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by rakoo on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:48AM (#12047664)

Or they'll quit. Oh they'll quit ;)

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by skykooler on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:10PM (#12047278)

or, they'll just reinstall the OS, if they have decent backups.

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by icholy on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:19PM (#12047301)

you're a terrible person

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by nameless912 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:20AM (#12047598)

I also kick puppies and write one word commit messages.

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Re:Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal by themartorana on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:26PM (#12047321)

But I like them.

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