Why do you use the terminal?

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

PlasterAnalyst,

I don't use it very often because my memory is for shit so I need gui options to be right in front of me.

lolcatnip,

If you use it often that stops being a problem. You remember command names like they’re your friends.

meyotch,

history | grep *

Alawami,

Gnome software store is absolute trash that never worked, so i had to use dnf from terminal. That’s about it.

library_napper,
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Reproducable actions that do exactly what you expect.

satans_crackpipe,

Because I don’t use desktop environments.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

Tiling wm or cli only, Satan’s crackpipe?

satans_crackpipe,

Cli

cmnybo,

I use a lot of programs and scripts that I wrote myself and most of the time I couldn’t be bothered to make a GUI for them.

BoringHusband,

Sometimes you’re not sitting at the machine you’re working on.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Scriptability.

Venat0r,

Because its easy to make a script that can chain together a bunch of commands for tasks i do frequently, so its only one manual step to do it.

olafurp,

I run stuff in the terminal because it’s nicer than clicking. It’s like a shortcut-only way of interacting with the computer when you get into it.

I make aliases and bash functions for everything I do often and is tedious to type / click like running steam games.

helenslunch,
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Because I have no other choice?

FractalsInfinite,

Because Gui’s don’t show advanced options and so I know/understand exactly what is being done. (e.g. I would always use apt over mint’s package store so I could see what it did, how much time I had left, download multiple applications at once and see if the package made a random config file somewhere)

randomaside,
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I just think it’s neat!

page,

It’s easy and fun

spader312,

You can use the terminal commands to automate tasks, build cicd etc. Navigating file tree and performing tasks is much quicker once you get the hang of it. Lastly it translates well on all distros and even on Mac, or windows with wsl or cygwin

tsonfeir,
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Lynx is faster 😎

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