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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:   
      
   > What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?   
   > I thought it wa a passing fad.   
      
   People outside the *nix world are rediscovering the things that the   
   command line makes easier than any GUI -- namely, automating repetitive   
   tasks.   
      
   Trouble is, after so many decades of being conditioned by major vendors   
   like Microsoft and Apple to be allergic to the command line, it’s turning   
   out to require some major intellectual effort, on the part of both users   
   and vendors, to get to grips with this new-old way of doing things. Look   
   at Microsoft’s struggles to turn Windows into something closer to Linux.   
      
   Apple in theory has a slight advantage in that, buried somewhere within   
   its proprietary OS is the remnants of something that used to be more like   
   a *nix system. But it seems to have deviated too far from the mainstream,   
   and the company shows little interest in remedying that.   
      
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