tlarkin
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OK there are so many problems with this even being close to perfect. First and foremost you have the end user at the command line. Command lines are not meant for average users. I would never try to walk an average user through command lines, nor would I expect your average person to want to use them.
Next, you have the problem of apt getting all available downloads and also getting other needed programs to make that program run. This can lead into compatibility issues down the road. You load a package that also loads 5 other packages that are required to load that package and it breaks something else, and now you are just screwed. This doesn't happen that often but it has happened to me running Debian. Which is why my Linux boxes don't run a lot of third party software if they are a production machine.
Then you have the whole POSIX permissions thing with Linux/Unix which people still refuse to understand or learn. Why should they though? Why should your average user even care about this? All they want is Internet, office productivity and multimedia on their computer.
In my opinion, a good OS can do everything from both the command line and the GUI, and should be able to do them both from ease and be efficient.
So far the only OS I can find that does that is OS X. Linux is a very close second but a lot of times they can't make that GUI transition. So, if I have to train anyone to do anything whether it be basic or advanced I can show them the GUI, and then if they really want to learn the command line I can do that as well.