Well I'm sorry if you live like this, but I don't and I have a sane definition of 'the real world', where your girlfriend won't be an expert shell user just because she spent her time playing WoW in the basement.

I meant the trolling... but you probably knew that.

Too obvious..

Physical CDs are completely unrelated to this you moron, we're talking about mounting an ISO via command-line versus GUI. Medievalist brought up the fact that Linux can automount physical CD drives which had nothing to do with the discussion, something you appear to be unable to grasp as well as you drool all over the keyboard in rage to call me a dipshit.

You're insulting someone who does the same thing as you, idiot. If I were flipping burgers I wouldn't be arguing about usability on Slashdot. Go back to preschool.

I don't know, why would you?

Why are you even talking about physical CDs? You're right, this is definitely way too complicated for you.

To me, learning the shell is useful because I spend a lot of time on my computer. For my roommates, learning the shell is a skill that they'll have to actively maintain just so that the one time they try and do something esoteric, it takes them 10 seconds less to do it. A complete waste of time.

Okay, I'm going to admit I didn't read your entire post because we seem to agree. Unless you have incredible typing speeds or that for some reason you aren't starting with the .iso right in front of you (99% of normal users will start this way, either after a web browser download or a copy operation from a friend), double-click or right-click -> mount will be faster than terminal shenanigans.

This, irrelevant of how fast some other operations can be when using command-line, is the point I maintain.

So your Linux box automatically mounts any ISO on your hard drive, and if you cd to an .iso file, it changes directory to it as if it was mounted? Because we aren't talking about mounting CDs or DVDs here, Windows has been doing that for a lot of years already.