Re: So What!
"Linux will remain a geek sideline until the devs buy into the fact that opening a terminal window for anything other than once in a blue moon disaster recovery is automatic, total FAIL in the mainstream desktop space."
But getting folks to use the Registry editor is acceptable by comparison? And the terminal is acceptable for doing mandatory tasks like disabling telemetry features?
Don't get me wrong; you raise a somewhat valid point. But the difference isn't all that wide. As a sysadmin who deals with both platforms daily, I see regular Joes (i.e. don't even know what a terminal is) use Linux desktops every day without or any issue, while it's not uncommon to need regedit.exe or cmd.exe to get by on a Windows box.
It does somewhat depend on the Linux distro in question of course, but most of the more popular ones are pretty darn good nowadays.
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