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Any esoteric computer use to a layman can be misconstrued as hacking. Even hacking. ;)
Yes. Because they don't have any familiarity with the way Linux desktops look and work, it all looks very much like the technology depicted in movies/shows/games that is very frequently a tool of a "hackerman" type character. That's even more true when a terminal enters play.
my daughter calls my terminal my code, no matter how much I tell her its just prompt for commands
I do believe some are - like those doing Linux from scratch without reading while using awk, sed and friends to edit configs
@Xirup generally just weird. They just look at it and see it so familiar yet so weird. However, if you tell them it's Linux and you even open the terminal once...
Also, it doesn't help the fact that movies use it as a prop for hackers, so people can look at it and be wow, just like in that movie I saw. What are you hacking today?
I figure when someone first adopts Linux they are like Abby and McGee double teaming a single keyboard. As they use Linux more they mature into the Lone Gunman from X-Files.