That depends a lot on when they started.

When I first installed a distribution where the base system only came with nano instead of standard editors, I was very confused (and very disappointed that this whas what they’d come up with as a “friendly” interface).

Systemd won’t be done until they port libre office to it dammit!

I never really used its find function. Whenever I searched for something, my first idea would always be to open a shell.

It’s a bit silly since kde spends so much energy indexing stuff though. I really should give it another try.

I’m still waiting for the release of 100% A1 written software.

(Spoiler: when it comes, it will have been heavily edited by meat popsicles).

You mean I can’t just

import * from * 

And be done with it? How inefficient!

There are several shell scripts that I’ve written in even less than ten days!

It certainly worked and was full featured, but the interface wasn’t very good. Having to edit the network interfaces to configure them wasn’t good UI for example (the partition editor works the same way). It also took until my second install (that was quite some time ago) to figure out that I could pick what software I wanted to install.

Anyway, a lot of things could be made clearer for first time users.

Emacs has scripts that can do almost anything. If you wanted to, you could pretty much replace your graphical desktop with Emacs and still do pretty much everything you do. vi is an editor.

US people like to give everything a different name. They often repurpose names from elsewhere thus bringing much confusion to online spaces. It’s their thing.

Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That’s pretty much it.

There’s always some weird niche client somewhere but it won’t be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.

After several decades, you’d think they’d be at vii already!

That’s what you get for dabbling with computers. Of course there’s many ways to do one thing. There’s many ways to do one thing with Lego, for fucks sake. Do you really expect computers to be simpler?

Look at the properties of the file in dolphin. It will show you various file signatures checksums.

That’s because the computer most people actually need is a tablet.

Installing Windows machines 10+ years ago wasn’t much more fun either… (I’m not sure it’s any more fun these days, but I haven’t done it in ages, so I’ve no idea).

In the last twenty years, I’ve pretty much only had nVidia hardware for graphics with very few issues.

Of course that wasn’t in laptops. Having a GPU in a laptop is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion.

I’ve been using Linux for over thirty years and the nice looking App Stores that have appeared those last few years have always been shit and have always been mostly broken in various ways. I don’t know why.

On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

I see you’ve never used emacs.

Isn’t the problem that it’s blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?

Because when there’s a new hardware function, the driver has to add support for it.