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When things work fine, then the average person does not need a terminal.

When you do have to fix something, you need a terminal. On Windows you need to touch the registry or worse. Try attaching a debugger to figure out the reason of a blue screen and tell me how user friendly it is.

Finding and changing a cryptic file to fix an issue is troublesome, but if the alternative is "just works" well... you cannot blame the terminal in that case, but the problems that are showing up.



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