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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it's actually better!

I know it's easy to think that it's about showing off, but honestly, the Linux graphical tools are much worse than the command line most of the time.

Installing software is much faster and more reliable using the command line than any graphical tool I've used.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It really depends.

For formatting drives i.e. i much prefer the GUI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nothing can beat GParted imo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gparted is nicer for some stuff (have fun resizing a partition without it, for example), but for basics it's hard to go wrong with cfdisk IMO. Or even plain fdisk. Very useful to actually know how to use that if you don't have access to gparted, e.g., system recovery or install, and cfdisk is super easy to use too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that I agree with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It also has an easy explanation:

  1. Programmer wants to solve a problem, writes some functions, can call them from main()
  2. Programmer is also Sysadmin, can't be bothered compiling stuff for every simple thing, so adds a CLI parser to call the different functions from main()
  3. End user wants a GUI... but Sysadmin already has all they want on the CLI, so maybe someone puts up some GUI when they're bored, or it really, really, really makes sense... or end user is SOL