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Thunderbeast

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3. I keep hoping that someone will develop a Linux distro that is user friendly

Mon Dec 13, 2021, 12:42 PM

Dec 2021

I keep hoping. I have machines running ubuntu derivatives, but I still have to go to a command line prompt and type cryptic code to load many programs or set up printers (assuming drivers are available).

For all their many flaws, Microsoft and Apple don't send you to a command line terminal for routine configuration and maintenance.

By the time Windows 10 expires in a couple of years, I hope I can configure my laptop and mini-desktop to do the things I need. I'm a guy fairly conversant in UNIX. I sold the product for AT&T, and took courses from MIT professors at a time when UNIX was purely a command line interface.

It still baffles me.

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