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Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me (alavi.me)
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[–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this a take from the 1980s?

Of course cli and TUIs are great. However they aren’t as discoverable and harder to learn than a nice GUI.

Is vim or eMacs great? Sure, but so is Visual Code for other reasons.

cli and TUI suck at drag and drop and copy and paste between applications.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I solved the drag and drop issue with dragon. Copying and pasting depends purely on your terminal emulator, no?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As I've found with nvim using the lazy-vim config, no. That program, for example, requires a separate clipboard manager if you want to copy between it and your system.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Which terminal emulator copies with ctrl+c?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Most terminal emulators will copy with Ctrl+Shift+c. I'm using foot, if you set this part of your config, it will copy with just Ctrl+c.

    [key-bindings]
clipboard-copy=Control+c XF86Copy

    But now for most shells you don't have a keybind to send SIGINT, which is very commonly used.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well, I didn't exist in 1980s. So this is how I feel as a 2000s kid and current software engineer.

    I think good ideas are worth updating for new generations.

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    • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's a lot of words to say "GUIs, TUIs and CLIs are good at different things"

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    And most of writing of gnu and fsf are a lot of words to say "free software good proprietary software bad" for example?

    That's why we write! :) When I say "I prefer CLI and TUI over GUI" I might need to explain why. And explain when a GUI might be a better option. I write these for myself and my friends and colleagues mostly. I just happen to share them on the internet :)

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    • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    How does btop compare against a GTK+ task manager in terms of memory usage when you include the terminal emulator in the btop count? It'd be a more technically correct comparison that way.

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    • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Warning: bit of a rabbit hole ahead - I lost an hour reading up on git email workflows

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah that is a VERY BIG rabbit hole :))

    One hour only scratches the surface though. But I really like the git email workflow. It's so simple (not easy) and pure. If my colleagues could get on board with me I would definitely be using it at work.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I would too!! I'm mulling over using it on my personal projects - I still create tickets, open PRs, even though they are one-man-projects, so working the git email in there will probably happen next weekend. So excited already :D

    An hour gave me the gist indeed, I'm sure there's many more to learn, but the concept already blew my mind. And it fits the terminal-based workflow I'm slowly creeping towards.

    No hope for my workplace through, the people there are still clinging to office365 mail without access for 3rd party clients. But they're chill so I am too, that's our (unspoken) deal :)

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