I understand the usefulness of the terminal and how universal it is for troubleshooting across distros. But can’t there be a way to make a nice graphical tool for the various admin level tasks that need to be performed?

Edit: Thank you to the outpouring of feedback on this. It has greatly opened my eyes to how much I don’t know about. I did see a couple suggestions though, so I’ll be sure to check them out.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Windows users always come to Linux and complain about what they are missing way before they understand what they have gained.

    • Quazatron
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      21 year ago

      While this may sound harsh, it is accurate.

      Windows users are accustomed to monolith apps that hide complexity. When confronted with a blank command line and hundreds of small tools, they wonder why don’t we have a shinny interface to hide all the cruft.

      You need to study the Unix philosophy to understand why things are done differently.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Window users come here fed up that Windows 11 is still using MMC from the NT4 days, or that there are 5,000 piece of legacy cruft from years and years of different GUI toolkits or that X doesn’t work exactly like Y did in Windows even though they hate Y.

      It’s just a natural maturation process.