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A strange "terminal emulator" idea I got, tho I bet this exists (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that GUI does not cover most of functionalities, for good reasons - being specialized to task (like files app), it provides more fine-grained experience.

Yet, I find that there are common commands which is terminal-only, or not faithfully implemented. for instance,

Commands like apt update/apt upgrade might be needed, as GUI may not allow enough interactions with it.
I heard some immutable distros require running commands for rollbacks.

These could cause some annoyance for those who want to avoid terminal unless necessary (including me). Hence, I bet there are terminal emulators which restricts what commands you could run, and above all, present them as buttons. This will make you recall the commonly used commands, and run them accordingly. Is there projects similar to what I describe? Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I understand the desire to want to avoid the command line, but you're severely restricting your ability to troubleshoot by doing so. Every operating system has a terminal and command line, and there's going to be cases where you'll want to drop into a shell to do something that has no GUI equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I am not suggesting an entire terminal replacement, which is unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You should see if there's a Windows equivalent (since it has the most market share by a country mile). If it does, use that for ideas, and improve upon it. If not, it may not be feasible or reasonable based on your goals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I dont think you should habe to learn to usw the terminal in order to debug your operating system. If i would switch my mom to Linux, i dont want her to have to use the terminal. So making life easier for those people would grealty improve the appeal of Linux to tech noobs. By arguing we need the terminal for Linux, we gatekeep people from trying and using Linux, if they are afraid of technology