• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    I don’t watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.

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      6 months ago

      The GUI wouldn’t let him break it, so he tried the command line.

      The command line required him to type, with punctuation “Yes, do as I say!” after a big warning.

      If an average user will do that, the “fix” of needing to create a file before being able to type “Yes, do as I say!” isn’t going to change anything

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        6 months ago

        I think there were a few other changes indirectly inspired by what had transpired, but admittedly I can’t remember most of them. I think Debian also modified apt.

        I also think I remember immutable distros taking off just after this.