Meme in three parts: 1: "I'm new to Linux, How am I doing this: …?" 2: Guy (Enthusiasts offering help) turning around looking at a good-looking woman (Cryptic CLI commands) while his apparent girlfriend (Accessible, user-friendly GUI tools) is looking at him like she's going to explode in a second 3: Very sad cat in front of a laptop looking at the camera (Devs of underappreciated GUI tools)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago

And a lot of desktop distros know how to suggest installation so if I type ip addr it might say do you want to "apt install iproute2"? or dnf or whatever I need to make it work regardless of distro.

But if I'm trying to use a GUI it's harder to figure out how to make a GUI tool appear. What's it's package name on this distro? Should I be using Flatpak and if so where's that? Etc. And this lack of assistance isn't (just) bad design because I don't know how you'd design a GUI where I can go "I want the NetworkInspector tool" and it just does the right thing.

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