Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 580
You don't need to go into the command line at all even to install it.
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Granted, doing some obtuse things after the install may require some CLI commands,[...]
Some of those things you need to go to the CLI to get working can be quite essential, though. And having to go to the CLI is the main problem with Linux, as far as I am concerned.
My mother is using Kubuntu. She doesn't know that - she is just happy to have a nice PC, that is working. And why is it working? Because I set it up for her. I have spend quite a few hours in the CLI, getting everything working.
Granted, most of the things worked right out of the package, and it is very few things I have had to mess around with, but those things that I needed to go to the CLI to fix - she would have never figured it out.
On Windows my mother could setup new hardware by herself, as everything comes with a CD-ROM and a manual. With Linux, I have to fix things for her.
However, the time I spend fixing minor problems is nowhere near the time I used to spend removing viruses, search-bars and more nasty crap from her Windows-machine, so all in all I am happy - but while Linux is pretty near something anyone could setup, it's not all there yet, and until it is, we are just not going to get people to switch.