teawrecks

I'm talking about a properly made GUI, you're talking about most GUIs. I believe I covered this in my original comment: poorly made GUIs are worse than a terminal interface.

But don't act like a linear string of characters, typed in one-by-one is the optimal way to interface with a computer. Obviously, a non-invasive neuralink implant that is able to interpret your intentions with 100% accuracy without uploading any of your data to Elon Musk is the ideal Human Interface Device, but we're not quite there yet.

In the meantime, I assume you run a window manager of some kind. Why? Do you regularly browse the internet from the terminal? Unlikely. Why not? Have you ever tried non-linear video editing, image manipulation, or 3D modeling in a terminal? How about debugging multi threaded code, or visualizing allocation patterns? Pored over profiling metrics to root cause a performance issue? And if VR/AR is part of your workflow, trying to use a terminal in concert feels sillier than the hacking montage from Hackers.

Terminals are objectively more limited than a GUI, because that's literally the definition of a terminal: a very limited graphical user interface. The advantage of a terminal is that it's easy (especially for programmers who don't have an artistic/UX-bone in their body, and are thinking in terms of functions and operands) to make a primitive interface that adheres to a set of expectations. But no one commits every parameter for every command line tool to memory, and even if they did, people don't want to type out a novel when moving a cursor to a specific region of the screen feels more natural and takes a fraction of the time. (Not that it always feels more natural in every circumstance, but in the times when it does, that's what every sane person should prefer to do).

So just like I told OP, the goal shouldn't be to use a terminal; you should instead focus on solving a problem. The terminal is just often the least bad tool that currently exists to solve a lot of problems.

As other's have said, have a goal. A computer is a tool, use it to accomplish something, try to get something working for yourself that currently doesn't. If your PC aleady does everything you need it to, great, you're ahead of everyone else 😅.

Don't think of the command line as a good option, it's archaic, and its capabilities are objectively rudimentary, it's just often the least bad option because no one has made a convenient GUI for what you're trying to do (or if they have, they did it poorly, and somehow the command line is still less bad). So you will inevitably have to interact with it.

That's already been happening for the last 15+ years, but Linux growth is primarily in the last 3. People are definitely moving to mobile, but the ones on desktop seem to be preferring Linux more than they did even 5-10 years ago (Note that laptops are included in "desktop" here).

Hah I had the same thought. Trillian, though. Named after the character from HHGttG.

They said they're moving and they've never talked to them, which I interpreted to mean they're moving out rather than in.

When you say "others who are on that website" you mean the mods/operators of said website? Because if anything gets taken down, your copies are heresay. You will need the operator of the site to submit records on the user (or they should expect to be subpoenaed for the info).

Probably Sonic on a friend's Genesis.

I mean, apparently not. They could have had even more sales once the mod released, but I guess they don't like money.

And Julius Caesar is literally known for being hated and brutally murdered by those closest to him because he was such a shit.

You should definitely throw that whole line into a script though, no reason to type it out every time. Then if it's possible to have a hook that runs it after a kernel update, that would be ideal. Not sure if there's a standard way to do that, might be a bit distro dependent.

It would be more effort than it's worth for me to remember them enough to care. Too lazy.

Come on Lemmy, surely we can do better than this.