Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 03:26:17 JST Peter Krefting

   in reply to

   • Julia Evans

   @b0rk It's probably more natural for those of us who grew up before graphical user interfaces were big, we HAD to learn entering commands. I guess that today you will need to learn it like a programming language more than the natural way of interacting with a computer.

   I have a Mac laptop. I usually have only two windows open at all times: xterm and a Web browser.

   • Embed this notice
     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 03:26:18 JST Julia Evans

     the terminal feels like kind of a weird thing to learn because

     a) learning some of the "fundamentals" (like the roles of the terminal emulator / shell / operating system / libc / individual programs) is definitely pretty helpful
     b) BUT I feel like ultimately I've needed to memorize solutions to a bunch of different problems, and understanding the “fundamentals" often doesn't help me figure out those solutions out on my own