Glad I could help.

        • notabot@lemm.ee
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          13 days ago

          Now that’s a better reason for looking for a GUI solution than the OP had. I hadn’t really considered how dyslexia would affect CLI usage.

          • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
            1·
            12 days ago

            Just to give you some extra impressions:

            My brain mixes up all letters with the same/similar form (regardless of rotation or flip) - so I often mix up [d, b, p, q] or [a, e] or [u, n] when typing. And then I read the command 20 times over until I find which letter got mixed up, because my brain autocorrects to the right command when reading.

            It helped to use the Dyslexie font in the terminal, because it makes those shapes more unique distinct. (not to be confused with open dyslexic which did not help me at all).

            Also asking an AI to correct the command is huge, but takes time.

            But man GUI has none of the hassle, it says what the button will do when you click it, so you click it and it does that. How wonderful is that, ay?

  • Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I have no idea what this mean is even trying to say, but as someone who is trying to make the switch to Linux, it is a steep learning curve, even for the most “user-friendly” distros.

    A lot of the information in forums assumes some sort of basic knowledge of code and processes which aren’t readily available. I’ve asked a few noob questions and while there are some helpful people out there, there are also a fuck load of assholes who seem to think they walked out the womb speaking Ubuntu.

    So my message to those people is, if you’re not gonna be helpful, kindly keep your snide comments to yourself.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      0·
      12 days ago

      If you’re getting coding advice, you might be on the wrong forums, which can explain the snark.
      You don’t need to do code to use Linux. You can use Bash if you want, but it’s not a necessity

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
        0·
        12 days ago

        Too many people expect you to know and understand gnu-utils and all the common config file, filesystem and folder structure paradigms though. Which is the problem.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.world
          01·
          12 days ago

          None of that is code.
          It’s possible that when you ask for help you don’t even use the words correctly, like you demonstrated here, so you expect people to help you without doing a bare minimum of even understanding the terms. If this is true, it’s on you.
          So many times I saw people comming hot, asking for help, and when given a command to run, getting angry that it’s some words they don’t understand, and asking for a different solution, one that doesn’t require commands.
          I don’t know, for example, what problem you had that required you to “understand filesystem” whatever you mean by that, and if so, what solution to it you expected.

  • Asetru@feddit.org
    0·
    13 days ago

    The thing is, though, that command line instructions work on most flavours of whatever distro you have running. If you have an xfce problem it’s fair game to tell you where to click, but if your issue is not related to your desktop environment, giving a solution that works on most, if not all, systems that may have the same issue, is actually a good idea. No?

    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 days ago

      Also, command line allows for greater automation, has more granular control, often has more features and can be… I’m doing ain’t I? I’m being a Freeza.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Copypasting a term command vs. 20 pages of “click here, now click there”. Which is more efficient?

  • obnomus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    I saw this other day and this happened with me too. I was having issues with brave and someone really asked why do u need brave