Gnome tries hard to emulate Apple's approach. Results are mixed, but I've seen fans of it.
Elementary OS goes in the "normal users" direction, too.
OTOH if something goes badly wrong, and you do need to open the hood and follow an arcane tech support recipe, you open a command line, be it Linux. macOS, or Windows. (Not Android or iOS though, where you do a reset + restore dance.)
> people want out of Windows
Yes, here's where they meet Steam Deck, that did take note, and just puts you into a cared-for gaming environment. It can also run a typical desktop. The hardware is proprietary, but the software is (mostly / completely?) free.
> Yes, here's where they meet Steam Deck, that did take note, and just puts you into a cared-for gaming environment. It can also run a typical desktop. The hardware is proprietary, but the software is (mostly / completely?) free.
The SteamDeck hardware is about as proprietary as any other x86 PC. It's not open source HW but it's also not really all that custom for the most part.
Except Classic Mac OS never had this. You'd sometimes need to do arcane rituals like "re-bless the system folder", but they were entirely GUI-based arcane rituals that involved double-clicking icons, opening and closing windows, and dragging files in and out of folders.
Text interfaces: streams of discrete objects (characters) with some having special purposes
GUI: A matrix of pixels + a set of of rectangles with special properties attached.
If you want to quickly write a program, text is the way to go. Most developers are scratching their own itch and already know the system. They may surface a few GUI settings (if it's GUI), but no one wants to build a complete GUI ecosystem on top of Linux (unless you go fo a restricted version like ChromeOS or Android).
And with scripts, you can quickly write your own software by using existing ones. It can be your very special computing world.
There was no other, simpler interface. And the whole system was much simpler (and less capable). The graphical hardware was way simpler and fully in-house, unlike the current GPUs that are third-party and evolve quickly.
Exactly, there was no other, complicated interface. Except in 1991-1995 when System 6 was going to merge with AIX and be A/UX and Apple was going to merge with IBM and it was all briefly very weird.
Gnome tries hard to emulate Apple's approach. Results are mixed, but I've seen fans of it.
Elementary OS goes in the "normal users" direction, too.
OTOH if something goes badly wrong, and you do need to open the hood and follow an arcane tech support recipe, you open a command line, be it Linux. macOS, or Windows. (Not Android or iOS though, where you do a reset + restore dance.)
> people want out of Windows
Yes, here's where they meet Steam Deck, that did take note, and just puts you into a cared-for gaming environment. It can also run a typical desktop. The hardware is proprietary, but the software is (mostly / completely?) free.