Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Linux Users Enjoy Making Computers Worse" video.

If the cost of replacing windows is to use utility and become windows, then what's the point? We're already a concerningly long way down that path.
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This is Linux. If you want an rm that will hold your hand, you can certainly have it and if you want one that will nuke your system in a heartbeat, you can have that too. Personally, I like a lot of the stuff that has come more recently. Who knows that mv didn't used to work between partitions, for example? Color ls is a nice have. Vim > vi. Choice is a good thing.
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@sergeykish But what are you supposed to do? I don't remember what was on-screen on that video but I do like where I get prompts that say things along the lines of "Do you want to glarblethump? (If you don't know, the answer is probably no.)". Otherwise, without context, it can often be difficult to know the correct answer, even for an experienced user and people will pick the option which would appear to allow them to proceed.
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@imzesok For sure. I've had a few bad experiences with dependencies with apt over the years. I think often the dependencies are specified more strictly than required. I actually prefer Slackware. You have to do a little more work resolving dependencies but things tend to get less weird and you're less likely to leave your system in an unusable state.
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@imzesok I find the installation 'straightforward'. It only has minimal dependency checking so can be a little more work but you don't tend to end up in weird states of with adding xpm support to imagemajick installing a whole X graphical system (which happened to me once on a headless server). If you want the latest packages, compiling from scratch tends to be pretty painless too, even if someone hasn't set up a slackpackage script.
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Many countries still operate that way and because of modern technology, security camera footage of what entails is often available.
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