[Johanx64]

How does typing cryptic, badly named two-three letter commands (with no less idiotic and inconsistent flags) enhance your thinking?

The default shell and utter lack of well designed autocomplete or hints is a like a bad trip back to tape machines, punch codes and weird idiosyncracies from a bygone PDP11 era.

It's absolute piss and nobody should be dealing with it unless they want to for whatever reason.

[bakugo]

If 'apt install name-of-software' is cryptic to you, I'm sorry but you should get that checked out.

[Johanx64]

How is apt not crypic? It's the bona fide definition of it, every part of it.

1. It spits out mountains of cryptic gibberish when you use it.

2. It literally contains "Advanced" in it's textbook nondescript three letter abbreviation.

3. Without a fairly intimate understanding of it's hairy inner workings on how exactly dependency and package conflicts are resolved, it will fuck things up and fuck things up quite royaly. Matter of time really.

Case in point:

Linus from LTT removing DE when installing Steam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HAS257Kk)

4. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that it WILL fuck things up even if you do understand that whole house of cards, but you will atleast know how to duct tape your way out of it.

Again reminder: How exactly does this enchance "our thinking" in any shape or form exactly?

[sylens]

Consider that many users of computers think any search box is Google and any word processor is Microsoft Word

[bakugo]

Maybe those people should take some time out of their lives to learn the basics of how computers work instead of expecting the computers to be dumbed down to their level at the expense of their usefulness to others.