Have you noticed how Freetards are always hearkening back to a Golden Age?
Once upon a time, we all used the CLI. Things were so much better back then.
Once upon a time (OK, this one is entirely imaginary: Ed) everybody shared the code. Things were so much better back then.
Once upon a time, software patents did not exist (veering towards total psychosis: Ed). Things were so much better back then.
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And then we had Linux! Things are so much better now!
All we have to do is to build a development stack and an audio stack and a network stack and a video stack, and maybe we can even produce the world’s bestest everest desktop (good luck! — Ed).
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We have Many Eyeballs! We Are Pure! This Is The One And The Only Way!
You may disagree, if only mildly. You are filth. We will treat you as the filth you are.
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If only we’d produced a decent file system before anybody else did. If only we’d leveraged that million-person basement army to take over the games world. If only we understood documentation, or usability, or stability. If only Mark Shuttleworth was a Genius and a Messiah, instead of an accidentally rich rank little nobody whose best idea was to fork Linux for the fifty seventh time, just like the other fifty six who (without his resources) went before him.
If only any of my adolescent spotty little dreams made any sort of sense whatsoever.
I know! Let’s port WINE to Windows! That will shut those hatertards up!
ItCouldHaveBeenSoMuchBetter™.
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Bah… It IS better. I’m looking at a 23 inch HiDef screen instead of a puny little monochrome green screen. I can click on an icon and launch a program without having to type in the directory mess to try to look for it so i can run it. I can install in a few seconds with a few clicks of a mouse instead of having to go and flip binary switches grouped in octets, or worse, having to type in each line of code and hope i don’t make a mistake or the computer doesn’t take a hike before I can save it to a nice new paper floppy that may or may not work right. Yeah… things could be so much better… Oh, wait. THEY ARE! Take a hike freetards. We don’t need no stinkin’ CLI.
“We don’t need no stinkin’ CLI.”
I wouldn’t say so. With the Server Core option and PowerShell Microsoft solved the CLI-only server deployment pretty well. Might also be due to Windows actually having graphical remote administration tools, so you only need PowerShell if you want to script something, but hey, it really does rock. Ok, that’s a lot due to PowerShell being actually able to interact with DLLs, COM, .NET and WMI classes, unlike Linux where using bash still locks you out from being able to actually do anything because you don’t have access to any native system features, so any kind of more sophisticated interaction (ie with a hypervisor) is freaking grep’ping to hell, whereas HyperV can be accessed per WMI as a class… Oh wait, I forgot how evil OOP is, C-style all the way!
I should phrase that as “we don’t need no stinkin’ CLI for every day normal gootta get soemthing done in a hurry” usage. Maybe…
Even for getting stuff done, you can manage an entire server using a GUI that connects directly to the server as a service. This has the added benefit of being able to transmit data in binary, send remote objects, compressed messages, etc.
Meanwhile, the CLI is meant to still be human-readable, meaning there are huge losses in efficiency as messages and data need to be first converted to text before being transmitted to the remote terminal for the remote admin to contend with.
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