As a non IT person I find Linux way better for installing software. The sort of apps non IT people use. The Software store has most of what I need. There rest I install the Windows way. From a website. Apps with a Linux version almost always detect and offer a Linux button to click to install. I wouldn’t know what to do if that didn’t work. Ditch that application I guess. My distros are pretty standard. Not hacked about. My apps are not too weird. I’ve been doing it this way for 14+ years. Never needed the CLI either.

Ha ha. So funny… what’s ‘compile’?

Sadly, big business, techies without imagination and community FOSS without enough capacity are the ones that control what is available. Nothing will suddenly change. Usability is way down the priority list.

That’s not necessarily so. There are all sorts of legacy reasons people give for making poor software. From lazy monopolies to programmers with little understanding of usability. To people without the big picture. It will change.

A GUI with good usability can let you repeat commands exactly if required. They use last used values as default. If people in needed that often we’d see more of it in GUI apps. There is often more useful functionality that get prioritised though.

I thought command line users like typing things. I avoid typing where possible, and dont use the command line on Linux.