Re:The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:26PM
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"The one-size-fits-all, point-and-click, we've-already-anticipated-all-your-needs world of NT had me yearning for those obscure command-line flags and man -k.
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Mastery of UNIX, like mastery of language, offers real freedom."
The thing is, they have not anticipated all my needs. Instead they have, through the GUI, limited what I can do. Inevitably this becomes a business objective, to limit what the user does, in order to further the company's interests, instead of the user's.
If mastery of UNIX (CLI) offers real freedom, then what does mastery of Windows (GUIs) offer.
Employment perhaps. In any case, something less than real freedom.
The thing is, they have not anticipated all my needs. Instead they have, through the GUI, limited what I can do. Inevitably this becomes a business objective, to limit what the user does, in order to further the company's interests, instead of the user's.
If mastery of UNIX (CLI) offers real freedom, then what does mastery of Windows (GUIs) offer.
Employment perhaps. In any case, something less than real freedom.