• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    It’s not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.

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      3 days ago

      In my experience learning Windows 10 for my job, the results of searching for how to do something are: ‘click-this’ tutorials that don’t work because Microsoft changed something in the next edition, editing the registry, or PowerShell commands. The registry editing sometimes doesn’t work because Microsoft changed something. The PowerShell method is the way to go, because Microsoft has embraced the command line.

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      4 days ago

      Which is honestly a good thing, it’s so much better than instructions that are like click here -> drag to the left -> open a three level deep menu -> check the box -> reopen that menu -> click go. Or even worse, instructions that are a video