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I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I've hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!

What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files... but that's a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it's actually just a CLI that doesn't fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don't like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.

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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I have run into situations where the only real solution to a problem is a command line utility, and quite honestly, when they are well documented with precise information and examples of correct usage, I actually rather like them - they tell you exactly what they're doing and don't waste resources drawing a window and progress indicators. The problem is poor documentation and thus poor discoverability. A tool to do a thing isn't efficient if I can't figure out how to make it do the thing.