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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 13 Dec 2025 21:35:40 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > On Dec 13, 2025 at 3:05:55 AM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   > <10hjdq3$3tm78$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> Now, suddenly, Linux has made the command line cool again, and those   
   >> two are desperately trying to play catch-up.   
   >   
   > Suddenly? Linux / UNIX has always had a command line -- since long   
   > before Apple or MS existed.   
      
   Correct. And that was always seen by Microsoft and Apple users as   
   something scary and complicated, to be avoided, pretty much at all costs,   
   in favour of point-and-click ways of doing things. And those platform   
   owners happily encouraged such a mentality ... up until recently.   
      
   How else to describe the change in viewpoint as “sudden”?   
      
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