No GUI in My House

> But he looses interest once he sees just lines. This hits me deeply. I do not have kids, even not married. But when/if they will appear I will manage to disallow any GUI on the territory of my house for everybody including me (I hope old Nokias will still be a thing at that time for having ability to communicate or it will not work). Then a child will look at the lines as at the most interesting thing in the house and maybe starts going a GNU/Linux hacker way as early as some greatest mathematicians have started their math careers. I respect such thing as Scratch and any of his competitors, but let's be honest, gentlemen - games is a misusing of computer and the lines is what matters.

A Hacker News comment jokes about banning graphical user interfaces at home so a future child will be fascinated by text, lines of code, GNU/Linux, and mathematics. The punchline is an exaggerated hacker elitist attitude that treats GUIs and games as inferior while celebrating command lines and old Nokia phones. EN: A Hacker News comment jokes about banning graphical user interfaces at home so a future child will be fascinated by text, lines of code, GNU/Linux, and mathematics. The punchline is an exaggerated hacker elitist attitude that treats GUIs and games as inferior while celebrating command lines and old Nokia phones.

• @gentoomemes / 3576 2023-04-02