It's is not either or. Also good cli require an eye for design just like gui. Lots of cli suck because there is no eye.
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Whenever someone cries about the command line, I just post the link to Cookie clicker for the mousers out there
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Even if it was less productive, I would insist on it, because it's just more fun.
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CLI is fun
My guy, it's because you're the vegans of tech.
Nobody cares. It doesn't need to be your personality.
You're not really wrong, but at the same time having technical knowledge is essential to getting us out of the tech dystopia big corporations have us trapped in, and a lot more computer knowledge would not only help people be more productive but it would help them make better choices about the stuff they use. One would assume that as computer technology only becomes more essential to our lives that interest in the technical side would follow, and it doesn't seem to have been the case as much as we are expecting. I mean your average Generation Z person understands that you have to connect your computer to the internet to use the web browser and they're capable of turning the device on but there doesn't seem to be an easy on-ramp from the basic knowledge of how to operate the thing to more advanced topics. I wouldn't even say I'm all that good and I did half a computer science degree
I have literally never seen whatever this post is referring to
This meme format never shows a scenario that isn't made up anymore.
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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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There are Windows evangelists?? π€¦π½ββοΈ
Just the other day, I was trying to run a CLI program, one I won't name.
I'm trying out a new immutable distro, and couldn't install it, so I said hey these new flatpaks are supposed to be all a guy could ever need.
So I downloaded an app that uses this unnamed CLI program as its core. It was a GUI app. And while it worked just fine, I also had very little control over what exactly was gonna happen and how it would happen. I wanted to do some specific things I knew the core program could do, but there was no way to do it.
Eventually I dug deeper and realized I'm an idiot and the CLI program can run without installing it or any dependencies, so it was fine to use natively. I was able to accomplish my task quickly and efficiently after that, happy as a clam.
CLI and GUI both have their place. I prefer GUI most the time, honestly. But having some CLI chops can be extremely useful at times.
I used to be on the yelling guys side and boy was I wrong. I now write scripts to do anything repetitive, all the time and it's great. I have a whole library of them I use and add to and improve all the time.
Yeah, I was wrong.
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People just donβt want to confess that they are feared from that little black box that apparently kills your whole machine, if you just type a wrong letter having a terminal open. π€
As always,
not enough education in society.
If more people would be brave to test it, more people would see that they can interact like this, better. And some, like me, appreciate the hard work GUI designers do, to make stuff more intuitive in the cost of efficiency
I love GUI with integrated terminal, tho, like dolphin
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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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