As far as I have gathered, gnome customisation is “fuck you, go patch our code. Besides, we’re gonna change it whenever we want”. So kudos for everyone behind extensions, but that’s a shitty policy to have for gnome devs

Depending on what you mean:

• yes, the more popular Linux becomes, the more malware will be written for it, no doubt
• how Linux is perceived is up to us as a community. There already are immutable distributions and filesystem snapshots, but will we advise them according to user’s needs or just send everyone new to Linux straight to Arch and arcane magic. The latter has been happening for ages now, but how big a phenomenon it is, I have no clue

Oh, so you are from one of my favourite gangs - “terminal is scary and a no-go”. Okay, I am yet in a good mood, so

apt, pacman etc are all commands that require a minimal understanding of the terminal, and the average person does not have that

they don’t require that. “open terminal, type this incantation, press enter” requires zero knowledge of how any of that works. Also, “average person” is wildly different depending on where it is measured

Regular users just want it to update itself in the background

Bullshit. You ever seen threads of how windows users hate its forced updates fuckery?

The only thing they understand about “apt upgrade -u” is the word ‘upgrade’ - the rest might as well be ancient sumerian to them

So let it be sumerian. Only thing anyone cares about is they know how to use it

Even remembering the short phrase is infinitely more complex than pressing a clearly labelled button

First - bullshit. Second - “clearly labeled” my ass, because human language is not maths, any text can be understood very differently depending on a number of things

You will never convert a single user by trying to convince them to use any form of CLI over a GUI

That made me chuckle. Go on, give me more insights about my life, it is so funny

So you don’t learn OS wizardry and don’t fuck around with working machine when there is stuff to do, duh. This doesn’t depend on OS in use