• Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 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

  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Super + T in my case, but still…

    (shhh 🤫, it’s actually the win key, but don’t let the Linux users hear ya 🤫)

  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 months ago

    Intellij: Has a modern GUI for Git with code cleanup, import optimization and visualization of changes.

    Me: Open terminal, ‘git commit -m “wrote code” && git push’. Then realize I forgot to add half of the files, so I make another commit. Then realize I forgot to cleanup bad indents, so I make another commit. Then realize my code doesn’t even build, so I make another commit, etc.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 months ago

    Don’t forget us dyslexics though! Cli is rough on that, but gui tends to avoid the errors a typo can cause.

    I swear, having to copy/paste stuff in terminal to avoid typing the damn commands five times is way less convenient.

    I get it, Linux veterans love the terminal because it is efficient and capable. But there’s multiple reasons for a gui interface for common tasks, accessibility being the biggest.