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May 3, 2011 7:12 PM
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With proper operating systems, “terminal” means precisely what it means to the outside world: fatal, beyond recovery, dead.
With the Linux desktop?
Well, let’s just try to coax the thing back to some semblance of half-life with a terminal session, shall we?
After all, there’s always bash. Such an encouraging name.
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Running out of ideas, aren’t you?
Reminds me of a happening some years ago:
My dad had some issue with his computer, and in order to fix it I opened cmd.exe (think for ipconfig, doesn’t matter).
He asked me however, why I’d be using that DOS box with these plain old commands you still had to learn.
I did not know what to answer, tbh.
Nowadays, I only use PowerShell when I want to see the output of some advanced WMI query or want custom statistics being printed out. Few lines in psh and due to OO it’s done.
Still, I close the “terminal” afterwards. Linux? Not so much.
Hell, Linux should come with an uncloseable terminal since according to every user and screenshot it is the only thing that is every used.
Uncloseable is not enough. (Leaving aside the minor issue with X doing it for you.)
A Modal Terminal, that’s what you need. Spinning. In glorious 3-D.
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