Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments

He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands

  • www-gem
    22•6 months ago

    Terminal is faster when you’re used to it and sometimes offer more customization options to some apps that has both a GUI and TUI/CLI version.

    I use the terminal (st with zsh and tmux) for:

    • file management (advcpmv, fd, trash-cli, fzf …)
    • emails (neomutt)
    • text editing/coding (neovim)
    • project management (taskjuggler)
    • image viewing/organization (ucolla,ge)
    • online video browsing (ytfzf)
    • calendar (khal)
    • ssh
    • vpn
    • news aggregator (newsboat)
    • web, bookmarks manager (buku)
    • passwords manager (pass)
    • dotfiles manager (stow)
    • not in the terminal but I also have a lot of scripts used in rofi to control my audio input/outputs, launch a web search, access my bookmarks, autocomplete username and password fields

    I’m sure I’m missing some obvious tools I use daily. It’s hard remember everything when it becomes so natural.

    I have shared my experience with some of these tools here.