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

DumbAceDragon,
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just faster. Often I can just enter a simple command before the GUI version even has time to load.

bouh,

The terminal is like a direct access to do things on the computer. A GUI is a program someone made to do a task the way he envisioned it to be done. If this task is not exactly what you need, you’re out of luck.

BestBouclettes, (edited )

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)

bizdelnick,

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.

moonburster,

Because googling a command line works way better and faster than any other form.

8tomat8,

Because I’m forced to use a Mac at work. So to avoid their terrible UI, I use the terminal for most of the things. Then switching back to Linux is relatively easy.

Also it is faster in most cases and it’s keyboard-first.

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

Kushia,
@Kushia@lemmy.ml avatar

You use it because you like to be efficient your use of a computer.

I use it because I’m a bossy arsehole and I like telling things precisely what to do.

We are not the same.

phoenixz,

Because I can do things in 30 seconds what two windows admins take 15 minutes to do with their point and clicking. Not even making this up, this happened.

megaman,

Every time I touch the mouse i get a little more elbow pain. Tendens or whatever. The keyboard (an ergonomic one, at least) is more ergonomic.

hips_and_nips, (edited )

I built a split ergonomic keyboard with a trackball on it so I never have to leave.

mcepl,
@mcepl@lemmy.world avatar

Without regards about this discussion, run, don’t just go, and buy a vertical mouse. Just saved my wrists.

wgs,
@wgs@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

For style points at the office.

GentriFriedRice,

Otherwise I’d have to install a gui

Rikj000,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Terminal still has use-cases imo:

  • Some programs only offer CLI, no GUI,
    to use them, the terminal is the only way.
  • Sometimes it’s faster to use CLI instead of GUI, especially when you can use your command history to re-execute.
  • Testing single lines of scripts while writing them.
pete_the_cat,

It’s more efficient, and for years (actually like a decade) it was the primary way of interfacing with a computer.

Luffy879,

Why should i open discover, wait half a year for it to load, search for vlc, wait half a year, look if its not a flatpak, realise its a flatpak, repeat

If i could just type sudo pacman -S vlc?

Or search how to update my grub config if I could just type grub-mkconfig -o /mnt/Boot/grub/grub.cfg?

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