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    [–] utopiah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    So... I'm definitely cheering up for the lady in red.

    Why? Am I an elitist asshole doing his best to sound smart?

    Well yes, definitely BUT I also appreciate the power of the command line. The CLI isn't "cool" because of the cryptic command, no the CLI is cool because :

    • ls (list files)
    • ls *.txt (list all files ending with the .txt extension)
    • ls *.txt | wc -l (count how of them are)
    • etc

    and the "etc" is the FUNDAMENTAL part! Namely that no matter how smart the GUI developer is, they can't predict how it is going to be used when done with OTHER tools. That's the true power of the CLI. So yes if you stick to a single command, the CLI is unnecessarily cryptic but as soon as you start to combine commands, nothing comes close to it.

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Nobara driver installer and disk auto mount GUI <3

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Does it really have it's own thing for auto mounting drives? Cause you can use Gnome Disks or KDE Partition Manger for that, which both offer a nice GUI for that.

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

    Yep, it's simple and just a list of drives, some troubleshooting instructions, and check boxes, but that's all it needs to get the job done. Brainlessly check the boxes and problem solved. It fixed my ssd not mounting on boot without me screwing up fstab again.

    Whats the setting called in KDE partition manager? I don't think found that one yet.

    [–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 5 days ago

    I'd say the ideal situation is that tools are developed library first, then cli or gui as preferred allowing others to pick up the slack and make the other tool (or tools) using the functions in the library.

    One of the reasons automation is so much easier on linux than windows is because there are many more cli tools to do things. On windows many tools are gui first and cannot easily be automated.

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    And how would I pipe the output from your GUI tool into another GUI tool?

    [–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

    Not to be facious, but in simply asking this question you're already beyond the scope of the people most GUI tools are designed for (I.e. novices who either don't need this tool often enough to learn the CLI, or don't need the advanced features you'd get from doing so).

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    [–] l3ored@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

    Step 1: Try several tools until you find one that works.

    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    It's situational.

    Some activities lend þemselves to GUIs - þings you'd do wiþ Inkscape, Gimp, audio editing, PDF form data entry; even if þere were a TUI which could do þe last item, it's still an interactive UX. Þe pointer is a more natural interface for some workflows.

    Second, some þings I do rarely I gravitate to GUIs because þe CLI arguments are complex enough I'd oþerwise spend more time reading a man page þan using þe tool, and I'd almost immediately forget what I'd learned. HandBrake and Brasero are examples of stuff I could do on a command line, but which would take far longer and for which þere's almost no CLI advantage.

    Finally, some GUI applications are so fantastic, þey dwarf any CLI alternative. Calibre and KeePassXC are examples. Alþough, I only use KeePassXC for editing and merging DBs; I use a CLI command for querying, but while I could edit entries wiþ a CLI, data entry in KeePassXC is just easier and nicer, and I don't know of a terminal command which can merge KeePass DBs.

    GUIs have þeir place. Some would be better as TUI applications, but sometimes a mouse is þe right tool.

    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    bemselves and bings.

    Look, you can't bring thorn back like this. You only annoy your readers.

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    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    yesterday I had to use the dd command dd - - help didn't help much

    [–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    install tldr and then you have easier commands

    > tldr dd

  dd

  Convert and copy a file.
  See also: `caligula`.
  More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html.

  - Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as archlinux-xxx.iso) and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=path/to/file.iso of=/dev/usb_drive status=progress

  - Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
    sudo dd bs=4M conv=fsync if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/dest_drive

  - Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
    dd bs=100 count=1 if=/dev/urandom of=path/to/random_file

  - Benchmark the write performance of a disk:
    dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=path/to/file_1GB

  - Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping if and of), and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=/dev/drive_device of=path/to/file.img status=progress

  - Check the progress of an ongoing dd operation (run this command from another shell):
    progress
    [–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Why not just read the man page?

    [–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

    I feel like it's a nice intermediate step when learning the commands. man is great when you already know you have the right tool and you just need to check a flag. A newbie who just left Windows is gonna be so overwhelmed by a lot of manpages, but this does a nice job of easing them in using examples to give the user an idea of what that tool is capable of.

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