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To: tacticalogic
The "average" user doesn't need much more than email, a browser, and an editor/spreadsheet, all of which are readily handled under linux with no need whatsoever to go to a command line.

Some others would want something to manage photos from their camera. Plenty of tools for that. Some are actually pretty good from an organizational standpoint.

Other folks would have a large MP3 collection they'd like to manage. There are more options for this than you can shake a stick at. There are also several servers you can configure to stream audio to your local LAN that doesn't take much knowledge to get working.  Biggest drawback for this is no itunes support. I think you can make that work, but I've never had the need or desire.

For me, the fact that windows doesn't have anything near as powerful as sed, awk and grep is a deal killer, but then, my computer does actual work as opposed to playing games.

OTOH,. If you dig games, you can always use Steam.

 

40 posted on 05/29/2015 11:05:10 AM PDT by zeugma (Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
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To: zeugma
Somehow we went from Unix to Linux.

For me, the fact that windows doesn't have anything near as powerful as sed, awk and grep is a deal killer

By what measure is Powershell not nearly as powerful as sed, awk, and grep?

41 posted on 05/29/2015 11:10:59 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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