It is. And so do I. The terminal isn’t hard, it’s just for the average user, it feels intimidating and/or extremely old and thus inherently bad. They rely on the GUI as the user experience. And to be honest, they’re right. A modern system should not require terminal interaction for every day use cases, or even infrequent use cases. It’s just not a user-friendly interface for a consumer.

And that doesn’t even get into the youngest generations that have grown up with touchscreens, where many can barely use a mouse. Even those most would probably consider to be more tech-literate, like gamers. PirateSoftware (I know, I know, but it is a real world interaction versus theoretical) brought a demo to one of the conventions, with 2 stations for a game, 1 KB&M and 1 controller. For the few kids that tried to use the KB&M stations, they moved the keyboard out of the way and tried to touch the screen to interact, because they didn’t know how to interact with it like that, they knew how to use a controller and a touchscreen. That was how they played games. Their tablets, and controllers probably on consoles. Youtube Shorts video explaining. That’s the average user. No one anywhere near a place like lemmy is an average user.

It’s nothing about learned helplessness, it’s about what the average user experience is for new and inexperienced users. And terminal commands are just not new user friendly. If Linux ever wants to consider being true competition for a Windows replacement with the average user, it has to provide easy to use GUI options for most commands, and it needs to do all basic functionality without a terminal ever being needed.

Like @user224@lemmy.sdf.org posted elsewhere in the thread, KDE has a good GUI for an end user experience for this exact situation. It shows files are open from the device, and what has them open, in the same interface an end user would use to eject the drive.

And the same works 99% of the time in Windows. We’re talking about the small fraction where pressing eject doesn’t work for whatever reason.

It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.

Oh the irony. You clearly don’t work with any sort of end user.

For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist. They aren’t searching past a basic Google of the issue showing them step by step instructions of how to use the GUI to fix the problem. If there is no way to do so in the GUI, it’s not getting fixed by them, they’ll take it to the Geek Squad if they even decide to fix it at all. They’re must more likely to just ignore an issue. In this case, just removing the USB drive and complaining about something being corrupt later on. The idea of the terminal scares the average person.

Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does Well that’s simply wrong. winget upgrade --all I just upgraded 44 apps I definitely didn’t install via winget, they were all installed via individually downloaded installers at some point in the past, but all upgrade with a single package manager command in a terminal. Certainly seems similar to me. It may not be everything, but it’s certainly the majority of things on this system other than the games.

By default Windows disables file caching on external USB drives. It should be writing those files directly. That doesn’t prevent a program from locking a file or folder that it is using though.

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

Windows probably has some equally complicated way of finding what is locking a file/folder… or you can just install File Locksmith which is a Microsoft PowerToys tool, and just have it in the context menu everywhere.

It’s also a justification for the millions of dollars they already spent on office space that isn’t necessary anymore.

An excerpt from The Lusty Argonian Maid.

One of the finest pieces of literature to ever come from Bethesda Softworks.

The difference is effort. Just dropping it over the ground is the least effort to accomplish getting it out of the way to move by. And not going out of your way to put it someplace else. You aren’t committing a crime in the process by stealing anything. And they’re likely to not check and just leave it there anyway for a punishment later when they notice it missing.

Taking the pin out means it’s no longer secure, it could fall out on the highway, damaging an innocent vehicle following at a later date.

Nah that’s extra effort that shouldn’t be required, especially for anyone with mobility issues. Leaving it in is just asking for it to be stolen anyway. Just put it on the ground right under. Not stolen, just moved out of the way, and they’ll inevitably not check and leave it behind. Probably never even notice until they try to use it to tow something again.

Those aren’t a choice. Driving a pavement princess 100% is.

They usually try to justify it with the loose excuse of hauling or towing things, that they do maybe twice a year. It’s pathetic.

The ones that actually get used regularly for their design are obvious, because they’re beat up from use. And from my experience, they also tend to be the ones that don’t park like this. Likely because backing in means you can’t actually load anything in the bed.

Note, do not steal them, just lay them on the ground under the truck so they can retrieve it. Reality is that they almost certainly won’t look at all before leaving and never know where it went.

Disagreeing with the critics is a time honored cinematic tradition. It’s like they’re always expecting Oscar worthy stories and performances. Sometimes I just wanna watch a bunch of cars go fast, or explosions go off, that doesn’t mean it’s inherently a bad movie.

No ventilated seats are objectively more useful.

Your seat will passively heat up from your own body heat over time. That is not the case when you need the cooler air from ventilated seats.

Right? Did they think the name wasn’t a description of the music they play for some reason?

No, that was just development on the promised No Man’s Sky-style recovery they were working on.

Yeah it is clear as day here. Airflow is inadequate while the product is in use on hotter days.

Someone never had to deal with mathematical proofs, only layman’s definitions.

All properties of a parallelogram apply:

• Opposite sides are parallel
• Opposite sides are congruent
• Opposite angles are congruent
• Consecutive angles are supplementary
• Diagonals bisect each other

AND

• All angles are congruent
• All sides are congruent
• Diagonals are congruent
• Diagonals are perpendicular
• Diagonals bisect opposite angles

Eden of the East I think fits. There’s definitely unhealthy relationships, but they’re not glorified by any means, quite the opposite in fact.

One of my favs personally, short enough to jump in and finish easily as well for new viewers.

Ah yes drugs are bad. Weed kills you, etc.

You find out weed doesn’t do any of the shit they said it did… Now absolutely everything they claimed is called into question. Why would they lie about X but not about Y?

DARE did more to make people learn that police cannot be trusted apart from maybe their general violent tendencies.