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by jefurii 3729 days ago
Can't find the link now but I remember a computer educator in the UK describing how he taught the command-line to a bunch of seniors.

They had been complaining about how difficult it was to follow all the crazy windows popping up everywhere and never knowing which button to click. This is actually a problem for many seniors.

One day he installed Linux on a PC, booted into the console, and told them that this was "story mode". He gave them a list of commands along with mnemonics, and talked about how in "story mode" you always had a list of all the commands you typed so you always knew what you'd been doing.

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An adblocker fixed that for my seniors.

Still need to uninstall Chrome from time to time though. Thanks Avast Update.