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System Name | My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
Motherboard | MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi |
Cooling | be quiet! Dark Rock 4 |
Memory | 2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 CL36 |
Video Card(s) | PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT |
Storage | 2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda |
Display(s) | Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz |
Case | Kolink Citadel Mesh |
Audio Device(s) | Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones |
Power Supply | 750 W Seasonic Prime GX |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 2S |
Keyboard | Logitech G413 SE |
Software | Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma |
If that's true, if system admins with extensive CLI knowledge are the only people that matter, if us, regular users don't count, then why does Windows still dominate the OS market?The only market that produces recognizable revenues for MS is the professional one. If taking a look to the private sector: Why should a developer invest a lot of additional time to develop GUI's that are not needed by the developers? They develop for free!
Exactly. For every system admin, there's a hundred regular employees who don't know shit and don't care too learn about CLI.That “professional”, or rather “enterprise”, market is not what you seem to think it is. It isn’t solely server and datacenters. It’s mostly volume licenses of their software for use on PCs that are still manned very much by ordinary users for whom the very idea of using CLI is anathema.
So asking why MS would pour resources into GUI development when most user-facing changes they have been announcing and pushing for almost two decades now were strictly changes to said GUI experience is a baffling take.
To clarify, I'm not against the existence of the Terminal. I'm against the idea that even a regular Joe, like myself, should learn it for basic OS functions that can be accessed through the GUI on other OSes.