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callyral, in Why do you use the terminal?
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Not having to go through a bunch menus to do stuff, not using the mouse, having –help for commands…

Or just for simplicity. For example, I use simple commands to manage my files: mv, cp, ls, rm, mkdir, etc.

There’s also Neovim, my preferred editor, which runs on the terminal.

I prefer to use GUI for visual things, like drawing, since that’s what it’s best at.

wgs, in Why do you use the terminal?
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For style points at the office.

lurch, in Why do you use the terminal?

I don’t actually use it that much to input commands, but many scripts I made pop one up to show details of what’s happening, e.g. how opening the VPN connection is going, what crypto module it’s currently loading or how many more iterations a macro will do.

DumbAceDragon, in Why do you use the terminal?
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Just faster. Often I can just enter a simple command before the GUI version even has time to load.

MangoPenguin, in Why do you use the terminal?
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Because I have to for some things. If I could never see a CLI again I’d be happy.

lightnsfw, in Why do you use the terminal?

Because my first deep dive into Linux was a server I built that I didn’t install a desktop environment on.

knobbysideup, in Why do you use the terminal?
@knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works avatar

You can easily pipeline simple things to do more complex things. That’s the point of written language.

canadaduane, in Shadow Cast v0.6.1: GPU Accelerated Screen Recorder - Now with Wayland Support
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Is it possible to get this to work with OBS studio? I see the author mentions OBS as an “Alternative Project” but it seems ideal to have these pieces work together.

Strit,
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show avatar

OBS already does screen recording on Wayland…

julianh,

Is it GPU accelerated?

iiGxC, (edited ) in Why do you use the terminal?

If I don’t know how to do something in gui: maybe click around or google it, it takes a while

If I don’t know how to do something in cli: command --help or man command 90% of the time I find what I need right away

MNByChoice, in Why do you use the terminal?

The CLI was there first. GUIs are still catching up.

furzegulo, in Why do you use the terminal?

many times it’s faster to do stuff in terminal than in gui

krellor, in Why do you use the terminal?

I use a terminal whenever I'm doing work that I want to automate, is the only way to do something such as certain parameters being cli only, or when using a GUI would require additional software I don't otherwise want.

I play games and generally do rec time in a GUI, but I do all my git and docker work from the cli.

Atemu, in nix warnings
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Check your nix.conf.

lurch, (edited ) in How can I migrate my existing /home/ directory to another drive?

If you have a root account that allows logging in in text mode (no X no Wayland, no GUI), you would do that instead. These instructions are for that case. The home of root is /root , so it would not be affected.

Mount the new drive in an emty dir, if it isn’t already.

Make sure the other drives file system supports everything /home does.

Set the exact same permissions as /home/ in the new drives top level directory.

Add a line to fstab defining the other drive to be mounted automatically as /home .

Move the contents of /home over to the other drive.

Umount the other drive.

Enter just: mount /home

This should work without errors and if you peek inside, you should see user dirs and it should show up if you enter just: mount

No reboot necessary, you could just log out, switch to the GUI login and log in as regular user. After your next boot you will find out if you edited your fstab correctly to auto mount it. If not just log in as root in text mode again and fix it.

Rustmilian, in nix warnings
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