iPad-only is the new desktop Linux

Re:iPad-only is the new desktop Linux by Endy on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:20PM (#12199207)

Except that to those of us who cut our teeth on DOS & Windows, and grew to the point that going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the hard way or because of a specific failure, *nix presents a vastly different working paradigm.

Not to mention compatibility issues and other general issues.

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Re:iPad-only is the new desktop Linux by likeclockwork on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:32PM (#12199243)

When you say that "going away from the GUI was either the mark of doing something the hard way or because of a specific failure", it's true about windows because the windows command line was basically unsupported territory.

The Windows command line ecosystem was a stagnant ghetto for a long time.

You had to use an uncomfortable and ugly program to access it and the environment itself barely moved from DOS.

PowerShell was the first real progress in a long time and now they've arrived at 'lets just run bash on windows'.

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Re:iPad-only is the new desktop Linux by subway on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:26PM (#12199229)

I grew up on DOS and Windows, and never felt that way. The console was always for when I ran into limitations imposed by whatever GUI I was in.

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