Turing Uncomplete

I have often wondered why people say that Linux terminal commands are unintuitive. Let us look at the following commands, and I shall explain where their names come from:

1. ls = list
2. cd = change directory
3. sudo = super user do
4. pwd = print working directory
5. chmod = change mode
6. chown = change owner
7. And so on, and so forth.

As you can see, all the commands are a very simple acronym. Well, except the ones it is assumed that any competent person will be able to understand anyway, such as ‘echo’, which echoes text to the screen.

I have no sympathy for people who come to Linux from Windows, only to leave again and complain that the ‘unintuitive’ terminal commands are what scared them away. What, did you expect Linux to be a free version of Windows? Well, it’s not. You could set up a series of aliases in Bash to enable the usage of Windows terminal commands, and make it look like Windows, but at its heart it would still be a Linux system - a beast quite different to that of a Windows system.

Oh, and before I stop writing, Arch is the best!