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>I doubt anyone has enough patience for the next question of "what's a terminal"

Have you spent time trying to teach people stuff?

Most people have no idea whatsoever how to learn things. Instead of asking "what's a terminal?" and getting a grunt in response, they won't even ask.

Learning things greatly outside your expertise needs a huge time and effort investment towards grokking the basics of the subject.

Most adults are goal-oriented, which means they won't do the hard work of really getting the basics, nor even think that maybe they should be asking, reading and writing down stuff they don't know that won't immediately help with their goal, but is fundamental to not end up bumbling about cluelessly.

The standard behaviour is like trying to solve differential equations without knowing what a function is. Just trying stuff works if what you are trying to do is piss easy, and it won't work if it requires any building blocks / isn't piss easy.

Instead of looking at a term they don't understand and grinding until they understand it (which is often a recursive endeavour), they are just trying to make it work.




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