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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

georgezilla Silver badge

Re: Its the updates

" ... Imagine a new user gets told he has to run some command line to point at a different repository? ... "

Can they use a search engine like Google?

Can they fallow instructions?

Can they "copy/paste"?

Then they can use the command line. WITHOUT ever knowing what they are doing. Or even why.

The last several times that I needed to install anything from the CLI it literally was that easy.

Yes, yes, YMMV. But it also applies to life in general.

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