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Re:How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line by IanCal on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:54PM (#24821433)
> If someone is on a Mac, then they are now running a Linux VM, then running containers, then logging into said fucked up environment and then finallly... running... awk?

Err, no, they are not doing this. That's not how it's working for a start (there's no SSH here) but the user experience is literally

Install a standard application, downloaded like any other.

Open terminal.

Run "docker run ..."

That's it.

> It is absolutely 100% only adding complexity and making things more confusing. How many people will not realize these utilities are on every computer they use?

They aren't on every computer, and they are different on different computers. A point the author not only talks about in the linked explanation but describes how that bit them.

Re:How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line by bsagdiyev on Sunday October 18, 2020 @07:48PM (#24822082)
Docker for Mac runs in a VM, so that point still stands. Just because the complexity is hidden away behind a pretty interface doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
Re:How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line by IanCal on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:50AM (#24823868)
> Just because the complexity is hidden away behind a pretty interface doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

In the context of making things hard for a tutorial or complex for a beginner, it not being visible is the key point. Just like the complexities of how your CPU actually works aren't relevant for this tutorial.