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The whole point of the post is that because users like you only ever give answers in terms of CLI commands, novice users probably don’t even realise how many GUI options there are.

Obviously CLI is faster and more powerful, literally no one ever argued it wasn’t, but it’s also less intuitive and harder to understand than GUI interactions (there’s a reason why people on Windows tend to use the GUI options and not do everything with the CLI), and for novice users, that this meme is explicitly talking about, that ease of use and understanding is far, far more important than the benefits of CLI.

Because using a gui is easier for novices, doesn’t risk fucking up your entire system if you accidentally copy paste a troll answer from Reddit, and doesn’t require you to learn commands by heart if you want to use them repeatedly.

It’s also much easier to understand what you’re doing, if you’re doing it graphically, vs just copy pasting some cryptic command from the internet

Feels fairly obvious tbh…

Your attitude is EXACTLY what makes IT novices afraid of adopting Linux. Because they think, thanks to people like you, that using Linux requires you to be good at using the CLI. But hey, if you want to scare away new users, be my guest.

Keep reinforcing their incorrect assumptions about how hard and complicated Linux adoption is, and push them to stay on Windows. A+ job if that’s what you’re trying.

Except I’ve literally seen several of those blanket defenses on ml, as well as posts claiming that these countries aren’t even dictatorships, as well as posts justifying and defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and placing the blame for the continuing war on Ukraine for not surrendering. All of which I’ve seen posted, and upvoted uncritically on ml

Just because the US is a pile of crap doesn’t make it remotely acceptable to defend brutal dictatorships that will arrest you for simply being gay. Or throw you out of a window if you complain about their dear leader too much.

I’ve repeatedly seen posts on lemmy.ml defending Russia and NK, both brutal dictatorships that tread on human rights with feet, so no. I am most certainly not making stuff up

Pretending Russia, China and NK are flawless just because they’re (former) communist countries isn’t left of AOC, it’s just plain idioicy and propaganda.

Yes you can. And yet I bet you’ve ordered pre made food before, or food delivery.

You’ve probably bought plenty of things you could’ve done yourself for cheaper. You’ve probably hired handymen to do things like install washing machines, or movers to transport your stuff, or painters or roofers or cleaners. All of those things are cheaper to do yourself. Do you portray people paying for those things as idiots in memes as well ?

Convenience has value, and it’s not weird, or inconsistent or stupid for people to be willing to pay a premium on the convenience of someone else doing things, even if you could do them yourself. Especially because a large convenience factor is that if someone else does it, someone else is responsible for fixing it if it goes wrong.

Also, if something isn’t working, you can RMA the whole machine. If you build a PC yourself, and it’s not working, it then becomes your job to troubleshoot and figure out exactly which component is causing the issue, so you can then RMA just that.