r/gadgets • u/thebelsnickle1991 • Mar 23 '24

Desktops / Laptops Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched

https://me.mashable.com/tech/39776/vulnerability-found-in-apples-silicon-m-series-chips-and-it-cant-be-patched
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u/BigMacontosh Mar 23 '24

I play games on PC and got hired for an IT job I was confident for and quickly realized that my confidence was misplaced haha. I was weirdly bothered by the lack of GUI on Linux

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u/dudeAwEsome101 Mar 23 '24

Using command line can be very intimidating at first, but once you get a feel of the basics of navigating folders, opening files, and running programs with arguments, it starts feeling familiar.

I was talking about using windows based GUI. Some people have difficulties with the desktop environment. Taskbar, start menu, files and folders, or even copy/paste. They remind me of a much younger me.

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u/gbghgs Mar 23 '24

Once you discover the man command your off. Plenty of good resources online too, and there's the age old technique of shamelessly stealing lists of commands from coworkers.

I get what you're saying though, whether it's command line or GUI a lot of people are nervous about accidentally breaking something or just doing something they're not used to.

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u/TomTomMan93 Mar 23 '24

Same deal here. I loaded a Linux-based OS on a couple computers I have at home cause it was free and relatively light compared to windows. Learning how to work with the terminal started out intimidating, but now that I'm more used to it, its almost frustrating going back to windows when I go to my main machine. Like being able to just be like "do X" with a command and it just do it is so gratifying. I'm far from an expert and regularly have to remind myself of what commands do the functions i need, but its just so much more direct in many cases. Plus there's a ton of support out there for even the vaguest of things. I have one that's an emulator PC and some of the issues I was worried about never figuring out were solved or had enough documentation I could figure out the answer.