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0 pointscameronbrown6y ago0 comments

I do all my work in vim ;)

I'm not saying the command line isn't useful, it's insanely useful to me, but I and presumably you are the 0.5% of people that do things like batch organising thousands of files. Most people will just have a basic folder structure on a cloud service somewhere and they're fine with that.

My point is that the general population doesn't need to be exposed to the command line to be able to go deeper into learning computers. Those who need it will hopefully find it.

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reilly30006y ago

I don't know what it is about a black, mostly blank screen, but for the first 30 years of my life it was a source of anxiety, a 'thar be dragons...' kind of feeling. I was convinced I would make one wrong keystroke and do some terribly destructive operation. Hell, there are still some directories I'm reticent to visit.

I wish there were guard rails for learners (I guess a proper permissions scheme would do) or a safe place to explore (probably lots online at this point). Agreed that for most people, storing files in Dropbox lets them get real work done without a second thought, and that in itself is A Good Thing.

cameronbrownOP6y ago

Worried about a `sudo rm -rf /` kinda thing?

lazylizard6y ago

Alias it then

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