I've been a '
DOS/Windows' man all my life! However, I've decided to be a bit more '
edurmecated'
and so I'm playing around with '
Linux' as a Virtual-Machine first, within a Windows PC.
Now obviously, GUI's make the learning relatively typical, (but different), than Windows or a Mac.
However, most online 'tuition's' seem to start with the CLI (Command Line Interpreter), as so much
seems to be done with that, for most users, although it seems daunting at first. And that's OK.
But why did they seemingly have to "
re-invent the wheel" ? Basically, it's like going back to 'DOS',
which I'm very familiar with, although I can understand that for a lot of young people today is foreign.
OK, so why use a new command like '
ls' instead of '
dir' which is world known for a Directory listing?
Or, using '
cp' instead of the universally understood '
copy' as in DOS ? And
numerous more changes.
I don't understand why they didn't standardize the names, even though it is a different O.S.