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<\/a>\n(The following text is to be read in a whiny, cracking, annoying, speech-impediment laden and slobbering voice, full of spittle and body odour.)<\/p>\n
“But the Command Line is true power!\u00a0 Only a complete imbecile would want to use a GUI for anything!\u00a0 (dork chortle)\u00a0 GUIs slow you down and eat up valuable processor cycles!\u00a0 Look at my glorious box!\u00a0 See how I do everything with only the Command Line!\u00a0 If you don’t want to learn how to use the Command Line, you shouldn’t be using Linux!\u00a0 Go back to Windoze!\u00a0 (extended dork chortle followed by coughing fit and rummaging around a cluttered and filthy desk for an asthma inhaler and the sound of an asthma inhaler being French-kissed and sucked-off)”<\/em><\/p>\n Sadly, this sentiment seems to be pretty common among Linux programmers.\u00a0 I do appreciate the hard work they do in getting everything about a computer to work completely from scratch since the early 90s, but I do not want to learn a hole completely new fucking language to use a computer.\u00a0 This is what memorizing Unix commands is like, and I’m terrible with memorizing languages, or memorizing anything at all.\u00a0 And I’m sure most computer users do not want to spend the time it takes to become a programmer just to use a fucking computer.<\/p>\n Yet, this is how \u00c1\u0153ber Nerd sees himself:<\/p>\n I’ve gotten pretty badly derailed from my original rambling about GRip, so let’s jump track and get back, Jack.<\/p>\n GRip is a “Front-End” for Paranoia, which basically means that it’s the part that lets you make settings and use the actual software by clicking on a graphical user interface.\u00a0 Oh my god!\u00a0 What an idea!<\/p>\n It took me a while to find out about GRip.\u00a0 The first Linux CD ripper I tried was bloody terrible.\u00a0 It only let you rip CDs to 128kbps quality, which is shit.\u00a0 It also didn’t allow you to alter the names of the tracks that it grabbed from CDDB over the interwebs.\u00a0 I forget what that application is called, which is a shame because I could more accurately mock it and complain about it if I did.<\/p>\n However, GRip served me very well.\u00a0 It does have a very complicated and inconsistent GUI, but that’s because some programmers tend to forget that not everyone knows where they hid the fucking features the first time they see the application.\u00a0 But once I got it figured out… solid.<\/p>\n But all good things come to an end.\u00a0 Today, I found that GRip no longer works properly.\u00a0 The problem is minor, but it prevents me from changing the names of the tracks that were grabbed from CDDB.\u00a0 And since GRip is no longer in the Ubuntu repositories for the latest release, I’m guessing it’s no longer being supported.\u00a0 It’s dead.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSaviour of the world of computers.<\/p>\n