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I've been daily driving Linux for maybe 10 years, and I see all these pushes for "lets make it easy. no cli!" as counter-productive. The cli is the interface on unix based systems, and the more time you spend learning fundamental knowledge like that instead of some ephemeral, unportable skin for the cli, the better off you'll be.


For power users. General users want this point and click thing, Windows/Mac got them used to it. It's sorta functional on mobile OS too. Its not like the CLI would (ever) disappear.


Problem is that some things will be hard no matter what.

There are people that believe that everything should or can be easy.

It is just painful to watch those people.

Yes you can build some software that will make FFT useful and you don’t even know you use FFT in an application.

But telling if an image is important for you to not compress it lossless way or 1000 of your images is or is not - well you have to sit down and make decisions and go one by one or make some rules that won’t be perfect.




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