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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should amend

You haven’t seen what it replaced

With

You aren’t used to it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unix was meant to be much friendlier than the mainframe systems that wer prevalent at the time and which wer horrible to use without a lot of training (or even with it). By contrast, Unix commands were simple, self documenting. Anyone could use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m aware but it’s not unfriendly today

People are just used to DOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, today it's arguably more advanced, interface wise, than the other systems since they keep copying stuff from the X11 front ends.

All the current GUIs are basically the same Once you've seen a couple WIMP interfaces, you've seen them all.