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Brainless take. Yeah they mystified it. Or Computers are pretty magical, and it was fucking hard to do shit on them in the beginning. . and it's delusional to think that a text console makes it easier to work with, that it's somehow not capitalism's but no that someone makes a gui and formats that's just the fucking illuminati brotherhood and not someone trying to make computers usable
Now that is a good argument!
With RedHat it seemed the complexity was intended to drive training courses. Microsoft never made similar courses available to the average person. (Maybe an artifact of the times and is held back by various B2B exclusivity contracts?)