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[-] Limeey@lemmy.world 154 points 1 year ago

A gui is helpful sometimes, but there’s a lot of cases where there’s no feasible way to make a good gui that does what the terminal can do.

Right tools for the right job.

For example, a gui to move a file from one folder to another is nice - drag and drop.

A gui that finds all files in a directory with a max depth of 2 but excludes logs and runs grep and on matching files extracts the second field of every line in the file? Please just let me write a one liner in bash

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 123 points 1 year ago

A GUI makes simple things simple.

A shell makes hard things possible.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 54 points 1 year ago

Me fucking with hard drives/partitions : GUI please

Me doing pretty much anything else - Terminal

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

I always install gparted in the live environment 😂... cuz... yeah, I can fuck things up and end up without my data 😂.

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Really you never organoze gigs of photos? That a gui task

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[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 year ago

Super + T in my case, but still...

(shhh 🤫, it's actually the win key, but don't let the Linux users hear ya 🤫)

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago
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[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

◉⁠‿⁠◉ The Win-key isn't real

[-] ayaya@lemdro.id 16 points 1 year ago

For me it's the (custom-ordered) Arch logo key ◉⁠‿⁠◉

[-] Hule@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Using it in Linux is a win.. HA!

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[-] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Few days ago I was in meeting with two friend, we did something for school, and my screen was shared. At one point I had to type something in Vim so I opened a terminal. They were shocked, confused and said something like "we aren't hackers" (and we are on IT department). More people should know about beauty of CLI.

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[-] callyral@pawb.social 48 points 1 year ago
[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 34 points 1 year ago
[-] callyral@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe I may have found a compromise: ❖+⏎

[-] QWho@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

I use Capslock and it is beautiful.

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[-] misophist@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I like both. I use whichever provides the biggest productivity multiplier. For example, I can navigate around the filesystem and manipulate text files and code extremely quickly in the terminal. On the flip side, I like to use a gui which allows me to spread 6-12 terminal windows across my multiple displays.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, GUIs are great. I especially like having multiple tabs to organize my terminals for different tasks.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

The terminal is not fancy, or pretty, and its not that nice to use, but its always available and it gets the job done, just like OPs mum

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[-] Yaarmehearty@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

I can’t say I love the terminal, if there’s a GUI for a task I’ll use that but there comes a time in every troubleshooting session where the terminal is just the only way to do something reliably.

I’m not going to lie though, I forget commands constantly so have to search the most basic shit to type in.

[-] spikespaz@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

The trick is to build a massive history file and let auto complete use it for parts.

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[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago
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[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Intellij: Has a modern GUI for Git with code cleanup, import optimization and visualization of changes.

Me: Open terminal, 'git commit -m "wrote code" && git push'. Then realize I forgot to add half of the files, so I make another commit. Then realize I forgot to cleanup bad indents, so I make another commit. Then realize my code doesn't even build, so I make another commit, etc.

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

UI file manager is bloat. Mouse is bloat.

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

It takes a lot of energy to move from the keyboard to the mouse and back constantly, gross.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish the ThinkPad nub was more popular.

If you want to get better with the nub use it to play StarCraft brood war.

Actually crazy idea: spacebar trackpad.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Don't forget us dyslexics though! Cli is rough on that, but gui tends to avoid the errors a typo can cause.

I swear, having to copy/paste stuff in terminal to avoid typing the damn commands five times is way less convenient.

I get it, Linux veterans love the terminal because it is efficient and capable. But there's multiple reasons for a gui interface for common tasks, accessibility being the biggest.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe some of those answers can help you

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[-] GlowHuddy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] Discover5164@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

meta + T is for tiling

meta + enter is for a terminal

[-] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It depends, on tiling WM for example tiling is automatic.

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[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 1 year ago
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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Say I wanted to make a bunch of folders with sequentially numbered names, and the same sub folders in them.

This would take ages with a GUI but you can do it with one line in the terminal

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

As a Linux user of 5 years, I like doing things with the GUI first, and then falling back to terminal if/when shit fucks up. It's such a great tool.

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Which is funny because I'm the other way around. I'll try doing something with the CLI but if it's like a calculation or something and I can't figure it out with awk, etc, I'll defer to a spreadsheet.

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$mod+Return crew wherr you at

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[-] callyral@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

nushell is pretty modern ^and^ ^written^ ^in^ ^rust^

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm the kind that never opens a file manager other than to move stuff from one directory to another

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[-] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Tbf quite often there just isn't a good gui for what I need or for some reason the GUI just doesn't do what it should

[-] toki@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago
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