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    [–] AnUnusualRelic 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The purpose of Unix was to be user friendly. And it is. You haven't seen what it replaced.

    Also friendliness doesn't require a Fisher Price interface.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Let me say that I really like "Fisher Price interface"

    [–] InternetCitizen2 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    This genuinely made me laugh hahaha

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    When I first saw XP was when I stopped using windows. So bad.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You should amend

    You haven’t seen what it replaced

    With

    You aren’t used to it

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Unix was meant to be much friendlier than the mainframe systems that wer prevalent at the time and which wer horrible to use without a lot of training (or even with it). By contrast, Unix commands were simple, self documenting. Anyone could use it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I’m aware but it’s not unfriendly today

    People are just used to DOS

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well, today it's arguably more advanced, interface wise, than the other systems since they keep copying stuff from the X11 front ends.

    All the current GUIs are basically the same Once you've seen a couple WIMP interfaces, you've seen them all.