osugi_sakae

@osugi_sakae@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to go back! Back to the terminal!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought when I saw this pic was “Are they talking to their computers in the future? GenAI ‘interface’?” That would truly replace CLI for many of the most complex tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to go back! Back to the terminal!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Linux since around 1998. Back then it was fair to say that the command line was occasionally needed. I personally prefer the command line because it is much more powerful, and I can do so much more with it. Shockingly, I do not use Arch. (I’m on Gentoo.)

  But, I also maintain an Xubuntu computer for my wife. I haven’t needed the command line for it ever that I can recall. I log in occasionally and it pops up a GUI prompt for me to install updates. GUI updater comes up, and a GUI sudo dialog elevates my permissions. Everything is updated through GUI. Everything my wife needs to do (including occasionally adding or updating a wifi connection) is done through the GUI.

  (Don’t get me started on their stupid mix of snaps and debs, though. That is a huge pet peeve.)

  Re: command line - have you ever seen a person try to move a bunch of 1 type of file from one dir to another in MS Windows Explorer file manager? Best case scenario, they know to ctrl-click to select several non-sequential files. Worst case, they drag and drop each file individually. In the command line, just do ‘cp *jpg …/destination-dir/’.