before I made the switch to Linux I never used a terminal. never. hell on Windows I even used a GUI for Git. I used sublime text as my IDE. if it wasn’t a GUI I was lost.
Then I switched to Linux and it forced me to actually sit down and learn the terminal and now…now I have a hard time using GUI’s. If something has a CLI or TUI option then I go for that over a GUI. like everything even my music player and video player. my IDE of choice now is DOOM Emacs. my file manager is Yazi. for Git I either use lazygit or just straight up the command line. but for everything else it’s just so much faster and in the long run easier to just use the terminal.
All that being said if you like GUI’s then hey more power to you and that’s fine. that’s the beauty of Linux. you run your system how you want to and don’t let others tell you otherwise. Hell I know a guy that uses NixOS and doesn’t have anything installed other than git and comma. he runs everything via comma. literally everything.
what is comma? difficult to find anything with a search engine lol
it’s just a wrapper for nix shell. so say you want to use firefox or neovim you’d just do “, firefox” and “, neovim” https://github.com/nix-community/comma
Probably this: https://github.com/nix-community/comma
That’s totally fine. GUIs let us theme our terminal windows, tile them, jiggle them around, maybe even make them wobbly!!!
<marquee>lol</marquee>
Compiz intensifies
Wow I haven’t heard that name for a long time… The last time I used it, I was using the horrible AMD/ATI fglrx drivers, and Compiz had been forked into a project called Beryl. Looks like that was around 2006 or 2007.
Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.
:) Did you know KDE also does wobbly windows?
No, I’ve been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian. Some day when very bored, maybe in retirement I’ll try Plasma again. 😆
I use it too. I don’t think we can do wobbly, BUT “burn my windows” is awesome on gnome!
You can also do shattering or burning effects when you close them!
I’ve been using this one called TV glitch, it’s really fun
okay, that was always allowed
Was it, though?
crying chudjak “Sob…sob… YOU’RE MISSING OUT ON SO MUCH!! You’re even ruining open source by forcing developers to make their things more usable for normies instead of fixing bugs! I’m so frustrated! I used to remember the time when I knew all the Linux users, hazing newbie users, now its full with woke people pushing Rust on everyone!”
I feel for you so I gave you an upvote. Here’s a hug too: 🤗
Depends on what I’m doing. Some things I prefer cli. Some things GUI is easier or quicker. There’s no wrong way to do anything.
Don’t let random nerds on the internet make you feel any way about how you use Linux. Live your life and be happy. There’s too much bullshit in the world to pay attention to jerks with keyboards.
me too, but only if it’s a good gui…
I still do updates and most package installs through my terminal, but anything else I look for a GUI solution. I’m lazy.
Is this a meme or a picture you choose. Either way, I love it! And I feel with same by the way.
It is an old meme format, confession bear
Very nice meme. Very nice bear.
I used memegenerator for the authenticity.
No offense intended, some of us were just raised by the internet.
🧓 oh boy, I guess I get my senior citizen’s discount now!
Don’t worry. I might be older but you would be the most educated in internet culture.
I can and will terminal things, but the GUI is there so why not?
I like tuis
Call me a hater, but TUIs are just filler for the modern wm ricer. I see new ones pop up everyday lol
rtorrent!
hater!
(but for real, I love a well-done TUI. Scriptability of CLIs is nice but sometimes the in-between of a good interface while remaining embedded in the shell works so well. Something like vifm allows me to zoom around with fzf, select things by regex or rename with vidir, move and package with rsync or tar, all without ever leaving my terminal context)
hater!
Can’t say I didn’t ask for it lol
I get their usability too. It’s understandable if you have to access a server remotely and you want some sort of interface for some software without loading the server with a lot of packages like gtk, qt or stuff like that. I said it mostly to jokingly dunk on the newer arch/omarchy users with their fancy hyperland setups :P
Your torrent box should not need a WM to download torrents, and given the dynamic nature of a torrent download (speed/peers/pieces), a one-shot cli wont cut it either.
A TUI is a perfect use-case for torrents, though I havent seen it done well in either transmission or aria2
You’re totally right, that’s the best usecase for a TUI. I was joking :)
“just”? When my aesthetics are perfect I work 20% faster it feels like! And … Well i’m fabulous
GUIs are nice. we are made for visual perception. don’t feel bad about it.
often, when one sees things presented visually, such as all the files in a directory, it makes much more sense much faster than if one has to read the filenames on a console.
GUIs are actually superior for human-friendlyness in many cases, but their functionality is limited and also they can’t be scripted. also it’s much faster to write a CLI program than a GUI program (at least for me).
I like both, but I think I would like cli better if the syntax were more expressive, and more akin to natural human language.
Nice try OpenAI
Fuck ai, see here.
The hardware of a computer is not designed to handle natural language parsing. Techbros with just enough knowledge to be dangerous will say it’s a matter of complex-enough software, but it’s more that human brains are not Von Neumann machines
Friend, I have studied my fair share of programming, I get it. I’m not saying there should be any significant difference to the way information is processed, or what kind of processing occurs. Just that the syntax itself trades off a little of it’s brevity for a little more readability, like something along the lines of the Inform 7 but still within the boundaries of how the programs and cli normally operate under the hood.
Oh, for sure. All it takes is me looking at an Awk one-liner to make my headspin. Give me a simple “for each line in $FILE, reformat MM/dd/yyyy as dd/MM/yyyy” instead of… whatever that looks like in Awk.
I can appreciate the desire for “you know what I meant” CLI interaction, but shudder at the verbosity of natural language in a lot of these cases.
