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Enable/disable disk encryption or reset a machine on Ubuntu via only the UI.

You've been able to do both on Windows and macOS for other a decade now without touching a terminal.

or repair a broken install etc

I think anyone who can find the right window and fix an install using just the UI has put a lot more work in than someone who could copy complete working answers from stack overflow and now GPT. Of course they have to train at it over and over since they can't use shell history so they no longer think it is a real skill to find these absurd boxes.

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