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    I can't use Linux! It's too hard! (media.piefed.social)
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    [–] ian@feddit.uk 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

    Not seen any black screen with text. I don't think all distros have that. I expect non IT users get to see that.

    [–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

    I… what are you talking about? Those words make sense on their own and I could probably diagram them as sentences, but put together in that way they don’t seem to parse into anything coherent.

    Edit: Wait, are you saying that you think there are distros that don’t have a terminal or terminal emulator?!?

    [–] ian@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    I'm saying it's never part of my workflow on Linux. I'm sure a lot of people don't need it. Even if they could find it. You can't do the things I mostly do, with a command line. And if the install is broken, I wouldn't try to guess my way to fix it. A reinstall is likely to be quicker.