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@davidgerard What's actually quite funny about this is that when you know exactly what you're doing, using a command line is in many cases much easier than using a GUI. On my own Windows systems, Cygnus is one of the first things I install, a GNU system that runs on top of Windows; not a Linux, it doesn't have its own kernel but uses the Windows NT kernel instead, but you can compile all kinds of Linux software with Cygnus and run it under Windows. I mostly use it for bash instead of Cmd.exe or Powershell, and for all those nice little Unix tools.

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this meme was funny 10 years ago before pulp-free automation became ubiquitous 🙄

@davidgerard I miss downloading shady exe from sourceforge. These day, I open aptitude, I search qr code, download the first hit and call it a day

@davidgerard this literally happened to me. bloated windows 11 sludged up my ancient laptop...now ive got cron jobs automatically running "sudo put-in-pipe weed.tar.gz && sudo smoke tarball" all day

@davidgerard the AI fans going all in on tmux is very funny to me

@davidgerard Next, Next, Next, Next, Accept, Next, uncheck "Install our browser addon", Next, Next, Next, uncheck "Don't not create desktop shortcut", Next, Next...

@davidgerard Juicing the tarball is probably illegal in at least a dozen US states by now, thanks to the spread of reactionary cultural conservatism under the Trump administration.