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Are there people who are mad at other people for using the terminal? Is this really a thing that exists?
There are definitely people who think it is reasonable to memorize button locations and 10 levels of menus in GUI programs but would rather go into cardiac arrest than use something like
program --option input-file output-file.thing with gui is you don't need to memorize button locations and menus. If you do it's poor layout. Good gui lets you find things you didn't know you were looking for intuitively, without external resources or manual. CLI requires you to know what exactly you are doing and is impossible to use without external resources. Nothing against terminal but unless you know what you are doing and every command required to complete that action, it's ass. If gui was so bad and cli was so good, guis would not be used by anyone.
I mean you dont go around copy pasting device ids and running commands for 20 minutes to connect your device through terminal when it is done with 2 clicks in the gui even by someone who has never used a pc before.
thing with terminal is you don't need to memorize commands, syntax and options. If you do it's poor design. Good code lets you find things you didn't know you were looking for intuitively, without external resources or manual. Gui requires you to know what exactly you are doing and is impossible to use without external resources. Nothing against gui but unless you know what you are doing and every click required to complete that action, it's ass. If term was so bad and gui was so good, terminals would not be used by anyone.
I mean you dont go around copy pasting device ids and running buttons for 20 minutes to connect your device through gui when it is done with 2 commands in the term even by someone who has never used a pc before.
Ftfy buddy
Okay then how do I mount my drive through terminal and set it to automount every time and change it's name to appear as "disk 3" everywhere?
man genfstab
genfstab whateveroptionsyouwant
Now give me all the X and Y coordinates of where i would click on my QHD screen for your example in gui plz
Your guide did literally nothing other than return errors. Seems like even you don't know how to do this. And you follow wrong instructions that don't work up with asking for coordinates of buttons for gui, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. As in you've gone through the barrel, through the bottom, dug through the entire earth and are scraping the bottom of another barrel from under it.
I like the terminal on linux a lot, but with arguments like these you need to touch grass at least once a year my friend.
man genfstab gave an error? Neither CLI nor GUI is gonna help with simply not having something installed that the guide assumed.
Why would i install random software some rando on some random site tells me to to do a function my preinstalled gui(and terminal) can out of the box?
Yeah, you wouldn't. My point is that's because it's preinstalled, not because of any GUI/CLI advantage.
Yawn, sure sure.
Thats a lot of text without a single x y coordinate buddy. Try harder while touching that grass, won't ya?
Got it not even you can think of anything to defend clis inferiority.