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In my opinion some tasks are better from the terminal some tasks are better from the GUI

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If you figure out how to do something in the terminal, you’ve got an 80% chance of that technique still working in a decade. If you learn how to do it in the GUI, your chances in a decade are more like 10%.

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How’s that time machine construction going, what year are you going to jump into?

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Agreed. I tried to avoid using virt-manager for my vm’s… I get that it is more powerful from terminal, but man is it a lot of information to learn how to communicate.

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System management utilities should have a GUI, or at least a web UI. I have a really hard time remembering the specific commands to look at my docker instance and overall system health… There’s absolutely no reason to not have that all in one dashboard.

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I do all my photo editing from a terminal.

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how does that work? and what do you use?

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Manually write each bit.

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imagemagick

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“well there’s a program for it but, it’s super buggy, just use the command line”

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Alternatively: “well there’s a program for it, but it has a million dependencies and hasn’t been updated in 10 years, just use the command line”

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Simple, go into your apps and look for the one marked terminal. Open that then do all the stuff I just said.

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Debian: “That’s the neat thing: you don’t”

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