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by wildmindwriting 2672 days ago
I have also found this to be the case too. Most people would rather have a GUI before even touching the command line. Most notably is Git; every single one of my developers use Sourcetree and if I have to help them with something, I always have to pop open the terminal. It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.
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radiator 2672 days ago
I don't see how this can be a target of their joke: they have problems with their GUI (I am assuming that's what Sourcetree is), you solve them with your CLI. If they want to laugh, they 'd better fix their own problems themselves, I guess?
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4thaccount 2672 days ago
They probably respect his knowledge and know he is the only competent one, but they simply don't care to learn the CLI method as they are lazy, or can't justify all the time it takes to learn it if he is there to fix their problems (more efficient). I've been on both sides of that situation before. There is always an expert in something you want to know, but can't justify the time. So don't take it too hard on them. I support a Linux based app at work and thus got pretty comfortable with the command line (vim, grep, awk, head, tail, cut, sort, ls, cp, top, cat...etc). To my knowledge I'm the only one in engineering with this knowledge (not in IT support). I also notice my fellow engineers will frequently use more complicated techniques for something that is a single piped command for me. I don't fault them for it though as they have no need to use Linux.
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nothrabannosir 2672 days ago
Jokes can be light-hearted and inclusive.
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type0 2672 days ago
> It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.

Well, the joke is on them for choosing to only stick to the GUI.

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oarabbus_ 2672 days ago
>It's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line. It's become a running joke among everyone.

That's... very bizarre. Amongst the engineers I work with it's always an "oh cool, you know how to use bash/terminal" rather than "weird, why are you using terminal".

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edoloughlin 2672 days ago
it's gotten to the point where I'm considered "odd" because I use the command line

Me too. I'm thinking of doing a presentation on the Dunning-Kruger effect to see if it sparks some introspection in my colleagues.

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