• hlqxz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In my opinion some tasks are better from the terminal some tasks are better from the GUI

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      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%.

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      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.

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      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.

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    “well there’s a program for it but, it’s super buggy, just use the command line”

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      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”

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    Simple, go into your apps and look for the one marked terminal. Open that then do all the stuff I just said.

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    Debian: “That’s the neat thing: you don’t”

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    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

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      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.