Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments
He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands
Otherwise I’d have to install a gui
- Update and install apps
- Edit my host file
- Neofetch
links -g is rad too! Nice having access to the web in the terminal, no java either. It’s fun to use plus can be a huge help if you’re having boot issues.
Because GUIs on linux don’t do everything that the CLI can. I use my computer for more than just browsing and editing documents, so the GUIs that do just that, don’t cut it.
Also, I’m on NixOS. There’s simply no way around the terminal - sadly.
Mentioning you’re using NixOS is slowly becoming the new “I use arch btw”, isn’t it?
it allows easy scripting. also for frequently used commands, i can just scroll up in the history, instead if clicking the same buttons over and over
I really despise the use of the mouse, in some way it just feels somewhat wrong, especially the need to constantly move one hand between the mouse and the keyboard. Also I’m way faster at typing that I am pointing and clicking around looking for the right button to press. Terminal commands offer a simple and expressive way to interact with the computer.
I usually use that to install updates.
CLI is conservative, GUI tends to change with each release. I have no time to search where is the menu item I need now or where is the menu itself.
I am on Windows as my workstation, but my servers run Linux, why should I install X/Wayland and VNC to manage my servers when even the later versions of Windows comes with an ssh client?
When I run linux with a gui, I mainly use the terminal as I sm more used to that rather than relearning a GUI.
Yeah I use WSL a huge amount of my work.
Azure for instance is much easier to work with in the console than the website.
Then there’s grep!
For a lot of what I do, its the only way to do it.
For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Tell him you can “talk” directly to the computer that way.
One of the other commenter made the analogy of being in a restaurant. With a mouse you can only point and grunt at things to communicate when you want. A terminal let’s you speak out your order and any other requests you might have.
For me it’s because it’s much quicker and reliable for most use cases. Also the commands are roughly the same across many many of my systems (AIX, macos, and Linux distros)
Command line is a lot more powerful for a lot of cases. Most CLI programs are written with the idea that the caller might be another program, so they tend to be easy to chain with pipes and redirection. So you have tons of simple tools that you can combine however you need.
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Because app manager doen’t work well. And there are the feedback that tell you about missing dependencies or broken package… But the only limitation of terminal is when you want to work with file system. I need to see the tree and typing ls -a everytime isn’t efficient.
For filesystems I have another gripe: if I move a file to another directory and I want to swap to the directory I just copied the stuff to I have to enter the whole path again…
- It feels great
- Terminal programs run on a potato
- They are almost always way more powerful then their GUI counterparts
- They integrate with scripts and other tools for unlimited power and flexibility!
- You feel like a hacker man
- Your IT literate friends think you are cool
- You can really do things your own way
So yeah I love using the terminal for almost everything
