>>3945>I want to actually understand why people think this way.Because the terminal is the simplest and most efficient way to get most things done. GUIs per se are not evil, I use them for several things, but the insistence that every program needs a GUI is moronic. When someone wants to deal with the packages on his computer, he already knows the names of the packages so all he has to do is invoke the command, type the operation and then the names. Compare this to the GUI where it is a cumbersome journey of clicking boxes scattered all over the screen, going to the search bar, searching for the name of a package, clicking on the checkbox and then going back to the search bar.
Package management should be exclusively done with a terminal because that is the only sane way to manage package management, just as complex image manipulation and drawing should be done exclusively with a GUI.
>is your grandmother also a retarded nigger because she just wants to check her emails and get on with her day?If she is only checking her mail and using a web browser then why would she need to be modifying the system or be doing complex tasks?
>>3949>Would you prefer a world where all things are done in a terminal?Not all things, but GUI web browsers certainly need to die.
>I firmly believe that, as a desktop system, terminal (or command prompt or whatever) should be completely optional for basic user tasks.Why are people so afraid of chaining "pacman" "-Syu" and "package" together? It turns a task that would take minutes into one that takes seconds.
>To what extent do you disagree with thisIf they want to do things the retarded way, they are free to do so, just as I am free to call them a retard.
>and to what extent therefore do you think that computers should not be universally usable?Only people at least 1.5SDs above average should be allowed near computers.