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bahua129046yNo compromise. Everything just works. No sales model into which your use has to fit, to suit some vendor.
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bahua129046y@HarleyQuinn
I mean that in commercial desktop operating systems, any system feature is added only under the understanding that deploying and supporting it will support an overall plan to make a profit, whether it's through sales, support, or something else.
With Linux, such a dynamic is almost nonexistent. -
Root825996yLinux: Written by developers for themselves, and to a lesser extent, other users.
That's why it's so amazing for development, and still has a decent user experience for average users. -
yarn in under 10 seconds
git commands in under 200ms per commit
live reloading that works consistently
searching the whole! file system in under a minute -
I'm sorry if this is offensive to anyone: Not even an OS made by angels is gonna convince me that I've been missing a "terminal" in my life... Graphical UI was invented for a reason!
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@hamido-san Not offended at all!
(keep in mind that I'm a server engineer professionally, I always have a drop down terminal close by)
- need to find which config file contains a string in a folder with 100 config files: grep string ./*
- need to do the same as above but then with gzipped rotated logs: zgrep string ./*
- need to know my external ip: curl somewhatsmyipsite.tld
- need to see all file/folder permissions of all directory contents: ls -la /path/to/directory
Stuff like that is many times faster for me through the terminal than through a gui. -
@linuxxx because nobody took the time to make a decent gui for them... I rest my case
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@hamido-san If you find a way to make a gui which launches faster and takes less time with entering all parameters (these are just examples, sometimes I've got to pipe output to other programs multiple times and sort/format that data in some way as well), let me know.
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Oh so it's up to me now, huh?
Like I said, don't wanna offend anyone, let's drop this... -
@linuxxx simply put
GUI: Easy of operation
TERMINAL: Power user, can do a lot more extended things
But GUIs aren't bad persee. Listing of searching a file? Terminal for sure.
Going through different folder structures to copy multiple files with different filenames that have almost no common factor in their name: GUI without a doubt. Selecting individual files for copying or transfering is much easier in a GUI as far as I know.
But then again. This is one the only things I could think of. -
bahua129046yThe keyboard is far faster, more powerful, and more flexible than a pointer-based UI. If you dispute that, you simply don't know what you're talking about.
The pointer has its place, but for basic OS operation, it's an add-on. -
@Charmesal In your case I agree but luckily I never have that one. Did you look at the use cases I describeed? (especially the piping to multiple programs)
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@linuxxx I did and I don't see any proper way of doing that using a GUI. The terminal is powerful and I couldn't live without it anymore.
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