I'm willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I'm pretty sure "configuration tools for sysadmins" is not one of them.
I generally don't miss anything graphical, once I learn how to do something from the cli I rarely feel the need to do it graphically anymore as it's usually a lot slower
The obvious one would be Photoshop and paint.net of course but krita does the trick
A GUi for SystemD
With the ever increasing complexity of systemd, the GUI will quickly get in par with Firefox in lines of code 😂
Setting per game frame limits and undervolting AMD GPUs is a lot more complicated than on Windows
LACT and Mangohud can do that pretty well
My Linux experience has been command line training. Now I avoid GUI stuff like the plague if I can help it.
A decent GUI LDAP client.
Yes, I know, I can use slapcat and all... But holy hell, I'm tired of writing basic LDAP files to populate a new domain. And, no, I really don't want to spin up a webserver just to run a web based GUI that I NOW have to ensure is locked down.
oh... that look tits! Thank you!
Found this not so long ago and it literally made me sad I don't manage an LDAP anymore!
afterburner. i'm unable to oc my nvidia gpu :(
LACT. Though I don't know if it can OC Nvidia, Nvidia support is quite new.
Something to help visualise BTRFS volumes & sub-volumes (ie, free-space, etc)
One thing I kind of miss is autohotkeys on windows. It was relatively easy to do things like set keyboard keys to act as mouse keys. I did that once when I was getting over tendonitis.
These days I have a keyboard with mouse keys on it and a trackball also with mouse keys. I can use the middle button on the trackball and scroll with it, but I can't use the middle button on the keyboard and scroll with the trackball, which would be more ergonomic for me. Haven't figured that one out yet.
That said, I mostly don't miss GUI stuff. I use a tiling window manager and command line utilities to do most things on my system. Its kind of primitive I guess, but the benefit is it works exactly the same on remote systems, headless servers, etc.
I have replaced autohotkeys with https://github.com/espanso/espanso
It does everything I need it to, although I am not sure if it can do the mouse button things you need
I'd like some kind of visual task scheduler instead of having to read up on how to do cron jobs every time.
People still use Cron?
Use systemd timers which are very easy to configure.
I've completely switched from cron to systemd timers for everything. I feel like they are a lot easier to remember and keep track of! Plus, getting logs for free is pretty nice as well
I have Emacs, and I have my NixOS configuration. That's all the GUI system configuration I need.
Why use NixOS, when you could just use emacs?
My Emacs needed a bootloader.
That should be our new slogan:
NixOS: Your Emacs' bootloader.
IrfanView. Nothing comes even close. I would probably move to Linux if not for that.
regedit.exe, my favorite GUI app 🤣
You can use regedit on Linux via wine!
You could try gconf
I really miss Microsoft AD configuration GUI.
Wait, no, that sort of group you have to make through Entra, formerly Azure admin center, wait no they actually wanted a SharePoint site for the group, wait no you can't do that through entra even though you can see the groups, you have to do that through O365 admin center, wait no you can only make a SharePoint aaand teams group there, you have to click more -> SharePoint admin center and then create a new group there, but not the default, you have to click "show more group types", but where can you modify the members of this group? Oh you can just go back to O365 admin center to do that. Now you want to make some small access changes to the force-created email for the group? Oh well you have to go to Exchange admin center for that. Wait, not Outlook admin center? No they are named different things just to make it easy.
Now someone who made an event involving the group is on holiday so I have to remove it, I can do that from exchange admin center right? Well actually the easiest way to do that is to log into Exchange from a power shell terminal through the GUI pop-up and terminal commands. But wait, the search for the event actually doesn't work there ever, even with the exact name? I guess I will give myself rights to the calendar, reboot Outlook, go to the calendar, remove the event, go back to the terminal, remove my rights to the calendar, restart outlook.
Actually, I don't miss Microsoft sysadmin tools.
HWMonitor / cpuID / cpuz. One of the frustrating things is not having good driver level support for certain mbs with system monitoring utilities, so you can’t see fans and some cpu stats (like per ccd temps etc on Ryzen processors). Specifically things like it87 boards
HardInfo2 may be interesting to you
Maybe simple and easy to use GUI Firewall.
I've recently gotten into using cockpit. I just wish it was as expansive as openSUSE's yast.
Pretty sure any one using YAST is confused right now
It seems impossible to set display scaling from the command line. Anything that fixes that would be nice.
What is your DE?
On KDE Plasma Wayland you can just use kscreen-doctor output.HDMI-A-1.scale.2 to set it to 200%
And it seem like CLI not GUI issue :)
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