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by rchaud 1323 days ago
Imagine a stationary bike that you have in your home.

Do you want to place it smack dab in your living room? Or leave it in the garage, out of plain sight, and access it only when needed?

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Definitely in the living room.

Tools like the command line and exercise equipment help improve capability and personal agency. Hiding either away pushes the default toward passive consumption.

Even though I agree with you on a personal level, this kind of thinking does not lead to mainstream adoption. If there were a Linux distro that "just worked", we could have the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be something that will happen in the foreseeable future.

I'd love for a company like System76 to come out with such a solution, but it is certainly an expensive, difficult endeavour.