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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

    On CLI I figure out the command I need once.

    Put it in a script.

    Cron it if I want it to be daemonized.

    Never think about it ever again.

    Anti-CLI folks just have a bad workflow.

    They see the script as the end, when in reality it's a foundation. I rarely look at my foundation. I build on it.

    With this workflow I have dozens, hundreds, or thousand of automatic actions that "just work". Idk, works for me.

    That said, if you prefer to click yourself to RSI to accomplish the same task, who am I to judge. I just watch and nod until I'm asked for a suggestion.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    Did a process last week that took me 13 steps in the command line that took about an hour. If I'd have done it manually it would have taken days. After I worked out how to do it I trimed it down to 6 steps and sent it to my coworker that also needs that information. His eyes glazed over on step two of explaining it to him and he's just going to keep doing it his way....

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Imo I don't memorize commands. Everything on my zsh is so aliased that I don't think I can teach someone else how to use any other cli.

    It just turned into me telling the machine what I want it to do and let it figure out how to rather than me do every little button click step.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    Memorize? Nah.
    I search through my endless command history with fzf and look up commands I don’t remember with cheat.sh

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I've never met any windows evangelists to be honest. Lots of Apple evangelists though who will spend forever talking about windows. Every developer I've met who uses Windows always had a tongue in cheek sort of "well it kind of sucks in some ways but it's what I'm used to, one day maybe I'll get off my ass and change OS".

    Reminds me of the "I use Arch Linux btw" meme which doesn't really happen as much anymore other than as a joke. Also, I use Arch Linux btw

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I mean, legitimately, unless you're doing power user things, you don't really need the terminal. And if you are doing power user things, then find me a Windows power user that has never used the command prompt or powershell.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Software would be more useful if every end-user program has both GUI and minimal CLI modules, as in Dolphin vs cp, mv etc.

    Why?

    GUI: Year of the Linux smartphone

    CLI: Automation, scripting.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

    TUI is a subset of GUI that uses text in a terminal to render UI elements. It does not make automation any easier. What you want is called CLI.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Didn't even know there were such a thing as evangelists for Windows

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Even if it was less productive, I would insist on it, because it's just more fun.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Noooo, you cannot have a consistent UI/UX experience across platforms with decades old commands and tools, my imaginary grandma might get confused, also you need three IT degrees to type "man command" into a term window.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Tbf, most man files are not easy to understand. Between man, tldr, ArchWiki, and an occasional O'Reilly book I can usually get things done, but documentation on Linux still has a lot of room for improvement.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
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