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Who else agrees with this? Unless you are a programmer or sysadmin, there is no reason for a regular user to ever need to use the terminal.
Any os that requires non technical users to know these obscure commands are instantly a failure.
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>CMD
Fucking winjeet get off my board.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>scripting
>gui wins
>because you need to know commands to write scripts.
wtf
Gui wins on rare settings and tasks, command line on repetetive.
Things like photo editors excluded of course.
>Who else agrees with this?
It's mostly right, except for the scripting part. Any user advanced enough to want to script programs will inevitably realize how limited point-and-click scripting tools are.
>Any os that requires non technical users to know these obscure commands are instantly a failure.
Not every OS has to be designed to be usable by everyone and normalfags have a tendency to ruin things. They are the reason Windows 10 shoves updates down your throat.
Terminal emulator and cli aps with mouse support
A lot of the points use the same reason "it's so difficult", even though there's a seperate point covering that. Shit comparison.
Gui for visual learners and cmd/terminal for textual learners
Why not both?
Gui is intended for workstation and allows to mix terminals with non-terminal applications.
It's pure win win.
Here's a better res because you're a retard
How the fuck is scripting a GUI easier than scripting a CLI?
Retarded article.
Anyway, both are useful, depending on the context.
The computers went wrong when you made them for niggers. That's when it went wrong. It's like how many people, it's like, "Ugh it's a command line.." Ah, fuck you man. White people don't mind it, ok? The white people are like, "Yeah it's a
command line. So what's your point?" The niggers are all like, "Nooo! We don't like the command line!" Here's the difference in a white person and a nigger: You don't like the command line? Ok, you're a nigger. Fuck you. Get the fuck out
Based and Terrypilled
How's she supposed to do anything without a keyboard?
just be honest to yourself and admit that terminal is too hard for you
If I want to install shit in windows I need like a bunch of shit from here and there and press buttons and whatever.
If I want to install shit in Linux I can copypaste one command into the terminal and it will install it all from repos, wow, so very obscure.
I disagree, I write a bunch of scripts to automate tasks such as downloading JewTube videos, making a file executable through the terminal ect. it is really nice, and it helps me practice coding a bit. Win win
>Ease
True
>Control
The author just claims that CLI offers "a good bit of control" and GUI "a lot of access". There's no argument to back up his claims, he only repeats what he wrote in the "Ease" part.
>Multitasking
What about tabbed terminal emulators or simply opening several windows? I'm not saying he necessarily wrong about GUI winning, but he should be a bit more thorough with his arguments.
>Speed
True
>Resources
So are these arguments about computers without a graphical environment or general CLI usage?
>Scripting
You shouldn't need to know a scripting language to write scripts? I'm not sure how to respond to that.
>Remote access
Why are we still arguing about ease of use, when it was the first category discussed? We get it. Novices without any knowledge about commands have a hard time.
>Diversity
I get more and more confused. What the fuck is he talking about when it comes to CLI? Is he implying that all CLI tools use the same arguments or even the same syntax to read options?
>Strain
More colors = less eye strain. Got it. Also now I have to assume that the author doesn't know how to keep one had on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse.
Certainly not the worst article I've ever read, just completely pointless.
GUI is easier to get into, but CMD is usually more convenient once you memorize the commands you need.
youtube-dl GUIs for example are really fucking useless to me
she moved it out of the way
based
this page is really biased (favors what's better for newbies instead of what's objectively the best overall). also in some cases it really is just easier to use a cli program. faster for me to just use my keyboard. also i'd assume most of us are programmers so i don't see why there's really a debate about this
On principle I agree; however, the UI has to be designed with the power user in mind. Otherwise, it is useless and powerusers will rapidly revert to the command line because it does what they want, faster and without ambiguity.
Long story short: CLI still exists because UI developers are fucking stupid.
Swing GUI builder is garbage
Excel is garbage
I have bad experience with GUI in general
it depends on the kind of application, if I need to edit a video I would prefer to use premiere or something like that. If I needed to edit 1000 video files, make them black and white and put a watermark on top them I would prefer to write a script that used ffmpeg or something.
>joseph vs jesus
>the UI has to be designed with the power user in mind.
Yes, but it means provide a scripting language to allow scripts, ie a CLI interface.
CLI still exists because computer is about automate, and only CLI are good for that.
Consoles are the same effect as navigating through a sea of dildos when all you wanted was to copy an mp3 to your usb drive
The entire debate is
>CLI has a high learning curve and GUI is intuitive.
Though both can be false. Youtube-DL is the biggest example of a CLI that doesn't have a steep learning curve of any sort and any compex gui will feel frustrating if you can't properly search trough all options (Photoshop/Gimp anyone?)
Based Terryposter
>CLI still exists because UI developers are fucking stupid.
A CLI is another form of gui. Some CLI's can display images or/and receive realtime updates. (although usually in a hacky way)
I don't do any programming but still prefer to do everything in the terminal. It's generally much quicker in every way and specially on my 14 year old computer.
Lmfao, the "delete all jpegs" example was so dumb. All you have to do on Windows is to click "sort by file type."
Even the grep example was kinda shitty. You just have to open it and press ctrl+F. It really sounds like this guy is just coping because he regrets going through the trouble of learning useless stuff.
Trivial examples sound stupid. It shines in more complex operations or if you're automating. Also stop replying to luke posters
Amen.
I can't watch the video at work, but I guess he made a script for deleting all jpegs? If you got hundreds of folders or need to do this often, yeah scripting it out is going to be faster than sorting by file and manually deleting.
If you need to batch edit a shit load of images in a specific and consistent way and need to do it often enough, it's pretty easy to script out, no GUI necessary.
Both are good. Some things are easily done with the GUI and for some you need cli. There is no point talking about computer illiterate users because they will never learn how to use the terminal so foolproof interfaces are for them.