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People think Linux needs you to constantly open the terminal to work on things, in part because they see Linux users so often opening the terminal to work on things...

Was just appreciating this morning that the "opening the terminal to fix it" in Linux is a privilege, not a limitation lol.

Sound started glitching this morning, I of course checked the soundbar, unplugged and replugged it, didn't fix it. Switched to TV speakers same problem.

Me being a techie, I'm going "Ah, pipewire glitched out", I pop open the terminal type systemctl --user restart pipewire and voila sound is perfectly fine again.

Do I expect other people to know how to do that to handle an odd sound glitch? No! I expect them "turn it off and on again".

The difference is that in Windows that's the only choice, probably the same with Mac too.

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AlienTux
AlienTux
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A lot of people seem to still believe the memes and jokes of the old days when you in fact needed them terminal. I completely agree with you! I can choose to use the GUI, the terminal or simply restart.
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Orion Ussner kidder
Orion Ussner kidder
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It's like opening the hood of your car. Nobody complains that that's just part of the process of fixing them. We've been trained by Apple and Microsoft to think that we *shouldn't* have to do that. It's monopoly shit.
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Infrapink (he/his/him)
Infrapink (he/his/him)
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I've been using Linux exclusively¹ since late 2010, and the main reason I use the command line is because it makes me feel like a l337 h4xx0r.

¹ not including my job, which is done on a Windows thin client.

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