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  • Captain Aggravated
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    1 day ago

    Another is fstab. You’ll often be told to go edit that by hand, often in the terminal. Adding a drive to an existing system and mounting it as part of the file system is a task an ordinary computer user would want to do.

    I’m thinking about a gamer switching to Linux, and then saying something like “I wanna hook up my 5.1 speakers” or “I’m gonna buy a new SSD and add it to my existing system so I have room for more games.”

    I’m not a proponent of making EVERYTHING a GUI setting because not even Microsoft does that but there are still some splintery edges in places people will actually touch that could use some sanding.