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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.

furzegulo, in Why do you use the terminal?

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

MNByChoice, in Why do you use the terminal?

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

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

knobbysideup, in Why do you use the terminal?
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You can easily pipeline simple things to do more complex things. That’s the point of written language.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

hperrin, in Why do you use the terminal?

My server doesn’t have a GUI, so the terminal is what’s there. As for my desktop, terminal is just easier for some things. And for my own stuff, it’s easier and faster than building a GUI for all the things I’m doing.

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

I do a bit of programming. Git help is about terminal commands. There are graphical front ends but I have to learn how to use them. I use terminal also for package management for the same reasons.

richieadler,

I’d say is similar with any source control software. It’s the same with me and Fossil. (And, granted, there are less plugins to support Fossil in IDEs; the one in Visual Studio Code/Codium does OK.)

astraeus, (edited ) in Getting a Server Running - SteamOS - Best Path Forward?
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You’re trying to run a .bat file on Linux that’s written specifically for Windows installs. Usually .bat is run on Windows, .sh on Linux. If you have a .sh file, use that instead. If there is no .sh equivalent you may be able to tweak the .bat to run on Linux, but I don’t know if that’s a reasonable path forward or not depending on how much Windows logic is in that file.

stepanzak, in "Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]

This might be what you’re looking for. Here is a YouTube video tutorial.

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