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by analog31 3878 days ago
Invariably, unless it's a major software product with a lavish budget, the GUI based setup program is less intelligible than the command line, and is accompanied by instructions consisting of page after page of screen shots, "with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one," to quote the balladeer. And when the next version of the OS comes out, or a new version changed the installation slightly, the instructions are invalid, but were too costly to update.

After years of that, "sudo apt-get install" was like a breath of fresh air.

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