> novices have a perfectly rational fear of screwing with things on the terminal.
This is a very valid point. When I first started with Linux, pretty terrified of screwing something up fundamentally with the terminal.
Most terminal commands are not particularly intuitive either. I'm technically very competent but before I learned how to code, I would have no way of knowing that "sudo" gives you admin privilege, or that "cat" shows the contents of a file.
For the average person, "sudo" or "chmod" are pure gibberish, and "cat" is an adorable pet.
Like this is part of the code for creating a mouse scrollwheel control script:
"if [ ! -f ~/.imwheelrc ]
then
cat >~/.imwheelrc<<EOF"
You can't be serious if you pretend that a non poweruser is supposed to understand what -f or cat, or E0F are supposed to mean.
This is a very valid point. When I first started with Linux, pretty terrified of screwing something up fundamentally with the terminal.
Most terminal commands are not particularly intuitive either. I'm technically very competent but before I learned how to code, I would have no way of knowing that "sudo" gives you admin privilege, or that "cat" shows the contents of a file.
For the average person, "sudo" or "chmod" are pure gibberish, and "cat" is an adorable pet.
Like this is part of the code for creating a mouse scrollwheel control script:
"if [ ! -f ~/.imwheelrc ] then cat >~/.imwheelrc<<EOF"
You can't be serious if you pretend that a non poweruser is supposed to understand what -f or cat, or E0F are supposed to mean.