Except you have to memorize commands, which in my experience I always forget if I dont use them for, like, a week. Whereas with a well made gui you can deduce what you should do. Maybe have both?
Hmm, I should learn how to do that. But then I get used to it and then get annoyed when I format my pc or have to use a different one... Also with a gui it's usually poasible to have a combination of keys that navigate it (usually starting with alt), so that you can still feel like a super hacker who does everything with the keyboard
I forget commands 90% of the time and it doesn’t slow me down much if at all. If I’m on a new machine and have no history then I’ll check the tldr entry, man page, archwiki article, or google, in that order.
Honestly forgetting (lesser-used) commands and then looking them up is half of what I do when getting stuff done in the terminal, but it's pretty easy to use the --help flag or man pages - beyond that web searches are a gold mine of one-liners for nearly every situation.
My experience is with a RPi4 running raspbian/PiOS. You want to run most instances of software that doesn't have fully fleshed out port, whether it be a disk imaging software, running a Doom port and queuing up mods, or running a VPN, you gotta do it through terminal. I don't want to live in the pod, and don't want to eat the worms, but that's just how it is. Anything that doesn't have a pre-existing fully developed software relies on workarounds or partial builds which run exclusively through terminal
Using a desktop is a very different experience really, running a VPN doesn't require using the terminal. Why don't you try something like Kubuntu out in a virtual machine?
The day I never have to interact with the terminal is the day I'll switch to Linux
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Except you have to memorize commands, which in my experience I always forget if I dont use them for, like, a week. Whereas with a well made gui you can deduce what you should do. Maybe have both?
just press the up arrow one or more times
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but then you have to memorize aliases that nobody else uses and you also don't remember what they refer to
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but then you have to memorize that
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Hmm, I should learn how to do that. But then I get used to it and then get annoyed when I format my pc or have to use a different one... Also with a gui it's usually poasible to have a combination of keys that navigate it (usually starting with alt), so that you can still feel like a super hacker who does everything with the keyboard
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history | grep searchtermI forget commands 90% of the time and it doesn’t slow me down much if at all. If I’m on a new machine and have no
historythen I’ll check thetldrentry, man page, archwiki article, or google, in that order.Honestly forgetting (lesser-used) commands and then looking them up is half of what I do when getting stuff done in the terminal, but it's pretty easy to use the --help flag or man pages - beyond that web searches are a gold mine of one-liners for nearly every situation.
Terminal is better in many aspects
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I replaced windows 7 with arch/kde on my mum's laptop and she didn't even notice
It's called the Windows to KDE pipeline
Do they still futz around in DOS like it's 1988
It's actually way better because Linux has actual, useful command line tools.
no, we futz around in
shlike its 1970You can probably get by without it on Mint
What do you use your device for? Most use cases don't require a terminal whatsoever
My experience is with a RPi4 running raspbian/PiOS. You want to run most instances of software that doesn't have fully fleshed out port, whether it be a disk imaging software, running a Doom port and queuing up mods, or running a VPN, you gotta do it through terminal. I don't want to live in the pod, and don't want to eat the worms, but that's just how it is. Anything that doesn't have a pre-existing fully developed software relies on workarounds or partial builds which run exclusively through terminal
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Using a desktop is a very different experience really, running a VPN doesn't require using the terminal. Why don't you try something like Kubuntu out in a virtual machine?
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