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But afaik with many files in an archive a tar.gz manages higher compression ratios since each file isn’t compressed individually. It probably isn’t relevant unless archiving a large amount of data though.

Does .zip have other advantages though? I don’t often need just one file from an archive anyway.

It also came with tar preinstalled in cmd for a while before supporting it in their GUI.

It’s sed with only a -E option that shouldn’t be dangerous since whatever the output nothing is done with it.

Ahh I hate that windows does that. It makes it impossible to do anything else with the super key.

Super+D is what I use but anything but just tap that button and flash your screen with a menu you didn’t want is great.

To be fair if you want to learn your options (without properly informing yourself using a manual) tab complete can be useful if implemented.

Also most programs come with their manuals so I’d barely call it external. The manuals are also usually better than what I’ve come to expect from the text to go with buttons in a GUI.

Knowing what commands are required is always going to be necessary but there’s also not that many worth remembering.

HP had a thing that popped up in my task bar that in order to hide I had open their preinstalled software that didn’t work.

Also less common were the Microsoft account things after updates and other Microsoft fullscreen things that caused serious difficulties as they wouldn’t even render right in some cases (I got something telling me to install windows 11 which wasn’t even possible for some reason and the close button was off screen, that happened the last time I used that computer after not having touched it for a couple of weeks).

Edit: Things I couldn’t do but can do now that I use Linux and learned how to:

• bind my own system key combinations
• select the right (GPU) driver version (though the newest has been fine for months now)
• use a launcher that doesn’t open bing in ms edge when I spell something wrong and just generally is quicker.

I would have expected a graph within the interval 86-64 (or flipped I suppose). Now it makes sense again.

I haven’t personally encountered any of that myself. I personally don’t use GUIs (UI could also refer to a terminal) for anything other than apps that implemented one for their own settings and unless they use the same terminology as the terminal commands or files I wouldn’t be able to guide anybody through one. So if people are just unwilling to learn how to use a inferior yet simpler way to do something just because somebody who asked for help finds it simpler that seems totally reasonable.

My gosh if it was easier I would have done so much with Windows before switching to Linux. Instead I was stuck with bad performance and annoying pop ups from my device manufacturer.

Nuh uh, I gave it access to a 3d printer and it boxed me in while I was sleeping.

Hmmm that can’t be right, did I use the wrong terminal? Why can I only sometimes be a girl?

!lEmmYSiLvER ?

I think without instructions most people would need help due to not knowing what a partition is. So depending on your interpretation of incapable this seems like a huge exaggeration. The Linux installers with GUIs I’ve seen at least explained how to set them up.

Couldn’t you just compile those dependencies yourself and use your own blobs then?

I would suggest giving it a smallish margin so that it wouldn’t get annoying with two similarly sized instances.

I’m confused by this comment

The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.

It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.

Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.

It seems like a weird middle-ground that might be used in a weird 5 year old server. Probably not great for gaming. But I too had stability issues with all of my windows installations. (1.5 laptops, a prebuilt and later the machine I use now which I started using with windows) All of them had regular BSODs (though the laptops were a little older and might not always have been that way) and one pc even broke the Windows Bootloader so that I couldn’t boot it anymore.

I think that’s specifically ahat Android calls it. (I assume MUI is connected Android in a way)