• Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    A gui is helpful sometimes, but there’s a lot of cases where there’s no feasible way to make a good gui that does what the terminal can do.

    Right tools for the right job.

    For example, a gui to move a file from one folder to another is nice - drag and drop.

    A gui that finds all files in a directory with a max depth of 2 but excludes logs and runs grep and on matching files extracts the second field of every line in the file? Please just let me write a one liner in bash

        • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          I see a lot of people saying they have to use a GUI tool for partition management, and I’ve never understood why.

          Text based tools like parted are fairly easy to use, at least compared to other terminal tools the same people are able to use for other tasks.

          What is it about partitioning that needs a GUI when other tasks don’t? Is it the visual representation of the partition layout? A general fear of borking a disk?

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
            1·
            11 months ago

            Is it the visual representation of the partition layout? A general fear of borking a disk?

            Yes

            Being able to see it helps a lot. I can and have done it via parted. My media server doesn’t have a desktop environment installed. I just really would rather have a GUI when it’s available as an added safeguard.

          • aard@kyu.de
            1·
            11 months ago

            Problem nowadays is that changing partition tables is so rare that parted changes their commands between uses, and I never remember if fdisk nowadays has all the GPT related issues that made me try parted in the first place ironed out. Plus I can’t remeber the new GPT commands and partition IDs.

            I still mostly just read the help text every time because nothing else is installed - but from the speed I might be a bit faster with a well designed GUI nowadays if it is about modifying GPT disks. MBR disks I still can do with fdisk in my sleep.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    0·
    11 months ago

    The main reason Terminals suck is the lack of any guides.

    Imagine a CLI interface without commands, just selecting. That would still work everywhere and be easy to maintain, but it would be easy to use.

    Or just having cheatsheets available

    cheat(){
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

    That makes Terminals useful for everyone