In my opinion some tasks are better from the terminal some tasks are better from the GUI
If you figure out how to do something in the terminal, you’ve got an 80% chance of that technique still working in a decade. If you learn how to do it in the GUI, your chances in a decade are more like 10%.
How’s that time machine construction going, what year are you going to jump into?
Agreed. I tried to avoid using virt-manager for my vm’s… I get that it is more powerful from terminal, but man is it a lot of information to learn how to communicate.
System management utilities should have a GUI, or at least a web UI. I have a really hard time remembering the specific commands to look at my docker instance and overall system health… There’s absolutely no reason to not have that all in one dashboard.
I do all my photo editing from a terminal.
how does that work? and what do you use?
Manually write each bit.
imagemagick
“well there’s a program for it but, it’s super buggy, just use the command line”
Alternatively: “well there’s a program for it, but it has a million dependencies and hasn’t been updated in 10 years, just use the command line”
Simple, go into your apps and look for the one marked terminal. Open that then do all the stuff I just said.
Debian: “That’s the neat thing: you don’t”
Lots of times you can’t do it with a GUI.
Lots of times you can
nice
When someone asks me help with Git
i’ve never used linux, idk how to place an operating system on my operating system having computer, and i read that linux is very complicated, so i never tried, and i don’t see why i should. change my mind
Honestly, if you:
- don’t care about data getting collected on an os you paid for
- don’t care about getting ads on an os you paid for
- don’t care about performance and have a fast computer
- (*) can’t bother re-leaning how to do some things
- (*) can’t bother facing and debugging some problems that you might encounter
- (*) don’t care about being able to do things faster, at the cost of knowing exactly where to find things the moment you start using the system
- don’t care about being able to customize any part of the system however you want
then you might want to stay on Windows.
(*) this depends on which distribution you choose. some are very similar to windows and beginner friendly.
