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Free software scares normal people

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917 points cryptophreak | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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andreldm ◴[30 Oct 25 16:12 UTC] No.45761642[source]▶
If handbrake scares them, don’t you dare to demonstrate how to use ffmpeg. I remember when I used handbrake for the first time and thought “wow, it’s much more convenient than struggling with ffmpeg”.
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MarkusWandel ◴[30 Oct 25 16:38 UTC] No.45761996[source]▶
At least with ffmpeg, for 99% of use cases you can just google "how do I do X with ffmpeg" and get a copypasta command line.

Whereas with complicated GUI tools, you have to watch a video to learn how to do it.

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1. nicce ◴[30 Oct 25 16:47 UTC] No.45762099[source]▶
One of the things LLM shines. For double checking the command explanations, I ask commands to grep the sections from manual instead of relying LLM output blindly.