• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    People say Linux is complicated while you can literally just run one script and have everything setup.

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      1 year ago

      At some point, I realize that I’m furiously clicking the up arrow twenty times just to reenter a command that was two words long anyway and far quicker to type out. Not even CTRL+R would make it more efferent than typing.

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        1 year ago

        Even with mid-command matching, like “ctrl+r Doc” for “cd Documents”? Just in case not everyone has found that you don’t have to match from the beginning of the string you’re looking for.

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    1 year ago

    While I love using a terminal, there are certainly things that I prefer a TUI or a GUI for. But they should be navigable using the keyboard. I can move files around much faster using Total Commander or Midnight Commander rather than using the terminal.

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    1 year ago

    a gui is legitimately slower in most contexts. I will never understand why people feel like they need one so bad.

    edit: spelling mistakes.

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      The menus tell you all of the things it can do in a relatively intuitive way. It’s easier and quicker to get started than reading the help/man page and remembering commands. Much shallower learning curve – but of course, a much lower ceiling on what you can do as your proficiency grows.

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      Hmm, now that I think about it, I want to say a GUI provides a (potentially false) sense of security.

      At the very least, it gives an intuitive sense of direction, so that you can use a program with very little understanding of it. Things like Handbrake over ffmpeg I’d prefer over having to look up how to do 2-pass conversions online every time I want to make one.