You don’t ever need to do anything with command line in Linux. I have 3 desktops at home, all running Linux Mint. One of them is used by my wife and my grandma, who’s 80 years old. They both have ABSOLUTELY ZERO knowledge of anything related to computers even remotely. All they do is click on icons they need. No problems and zero complaints from both of them.

When I moved from Windows 7 to Linux Mint, THEY DID NOT EVEN NOTICE ANYTHING. For a couple of days they asked me, where is this button now and where is that icon now. That’s it.

Moreover, all I do on their computer is run Update manager once a week. My wife could do it, but I just prefer not to give her the admin password just in case. That’s it

So stop misleading people. You don’t to do ANYTHING with command line in Linux these days.

Would you rather enter a couple of commands in the terminal or go through confusing menu hell. I find it fun using the terminal for some things, like updating my system and installing apps. It’s kind of easier to use the terminal in some situations once you know the shortcuts (ex: the Tab key to auto fill when you are typing a command or looking for a program to install).

flatpak install winepak tld.domain.Application

error: Error searching remote winepak: Can’t find ref tld.domain.Application

flatpak install winepak tld.domain.Application

error: Error searching remote winepak: Can’t find ref tld.domain.Application

We live in the click-and-done era and anything tech related today is only accepted by the general public if it is a couple of clicks away tops. Until the day that Linux developers realize this obvious thing they will only be building (developing) stuff for themselves and no one else.

Who else on earth beside middle-aged who used ms-dos command line back in the days and developers will even consider for a second opening a command line and typing something like “flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo“? Literally zero out of one hundred.

So here we could have had an innovation that could have captivated a newer public for Linux, but instead it’s dead at birth unless it is transformed in a way that can serve the market the way the market expects it. Developers have to forget about command line and make something that looks like google play store. Everything different died 25 years ago.

And spoiler alert, the click-and-done era is also almost over. The speak-and-done era is taking over. So Linux developers please, please realize this once and for all and kill the need of using a command line.