• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    671·
    9 months ago

    Super + T in my case, but still…

    (shhh 🤫, it’s actually the win key, but don’t let the Linux users hear ya 🤫)

      • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        For me it’s the (custom-ordered) Arch logo key ◉⁠‿⁠◉

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      For me, it’s:

      • mod + return for terminal
      • mod + e for file manager
      • mod + r for dmenu/bemenu
      • mod + d to switch to the next empty workspace.

      All because I have to work with win10 workstations and using a different, superior shortcut scheme would mess up my muscle memory. Remembering to use shutdown -s -f -t 0 instead of poweroff is difficult enough, and don’t even get me started with the audacity to use curl as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest!

    • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      9 months ago

      I have to confess. I had to look up the shortcut for terminal because I haven’t interacted with a Linux desktop in years. I’m a Windows cuck, but not a total imposter bc I’ve kept a debian server running on my network for years. Whenever something breaks or I do an update (the updates are invariably the cause of the breakage) I manage her with ssh.

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        It’s Ctrl+Alt+T on most DEs… but, that’s way too many keys for my taste, so I usually just add Super+T as well (don’t remove the default).

  • cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world
    592·
    9 months ago

    Few days ago I was in meeting with two friend, we did something for school, and my screen was shared. At one point I had to type something in Vim so I opened a terminal. They were shocked, confused and said something like “we aren’t hackers” (and we are on IT department). More people should know about beauty of CLI.

      • cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world
        61·
        9 months ago

        They use Windows but to be fair there are Windows users who use CLI (I have one friend who does).

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, I spend far too much of my life managing Windows workstations, Servers and Azure things and almost all of it is in PowerShell.

  • misophist@lemmy.world
    34·
    9 months ago

    Honestly, I like both. I use whichever provides the biggest productivity multiplier. For example, I can navigate around the filesystem and manipulate text files and code extremely quickly in the terminal. On the flip side, I like to use a gui which allows me to spread 6-12 terminal windows across my multiple displays.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    343·
    9 months ago

    The terminal is not fancy, or pretty, and its not that nice to use, but its always available and it gets the job done, just like OPs mum

  • Yaarmehearty@lemmy.ml
    28·
    9 months ago

    I can’t say I love the terminal, if there’s a GUI for a task I’ll use that but there comes a time in every troubleshooting session where the terminal is just the only way to do something reliably.

    I’m not going to lie though, I forget commands constantly so have to search the most basic shit to type in.

        • PlutoParty@programming.dev
          1·
          9 months ago

          Ash is the only one I’m aware of, but that’s primarily going to be found and used on stuff like routers or other embedded devices. Any modern shell can support history. That said, many users will disable it or wipe it on logout for security reasons.

          • chitak166@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            It’s not just history support. It will provide autocomplete suggestions based on what you’ve already typed and allow you to browse the history of a specific query.

            Zsh is the only shell I’ve used that supports it, using Manjaro.

            My Ubuntu 22.04 server using Bash does not. It only supports the basic history that I think you are referring to where you can just browse the history of all your commands at once.

  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
    25·
    9 months ago

    Intellij: Has a modern GUI for Git with code cleanup, import optimization and visualization of changes.

    Me: Open terminal, ‘git commit -m “wrote code” && git push’. Then realize I forgot to add half of the files, so I make another commit. Then realize I forgot to cleanup bad indents, so I make another commit. Then realize my code doesn’t even build, so I make another commit, etc.

    • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      9 months ago

      The only Git GUI that I find actually lets me do the basics in a simple way is GitHub desktop. It allows me to quickly see a diff of the changes, select a few lines or a chunk or all the file, it manages stashes and conflicts for me which is like 98% of my usage. Otherwise I use gitui or the git cli for anything more complex than committing and switching/merging branches.

      • kdm@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months ago

        I’ve started using LazyGit recently and I love it. It runs in CLI and essentially just maps the git commands to keyboard shortcuts. Really easy to use and learn, definitely increased my productivity

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    252·
    9 months ago

    Don’t forget us dyslexics though! Cli is rough on that, but gui tends to avoid the errors a typo can cause.

    I swear, having to copy/paste stuff in terminal to avoid typing the damn commands five times is way less convenient.

    I get it, Linux veterans love the terminal because it is efficient and capable. But there’s multiple reasons for a gui interface for common tasks, accessibility being the biggest.

      • olutukko@lemmy.world
        201·
        9 months ago

        It’s not locking behind terminal. It’s just not implementing gui. Which is completely valid since that takes time and effort

        • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
          71·
          9 months ago

          Also, writing a GUI wrapper for a terminal-only program is much easier than writing a terminal wrapper for a GUI-only program.

          • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
            14·
            9 months ago

            Anyone worth any kind of respect writes the API for an application/CTA first and then uses the same API to power the GUI so it can also be used as a CLI tool.

            Everyone is happy, no elitism or wars.

            • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              What do you mean by “CTA”? How don’t see how “Call to Action” is relevant in this context, seeing how it’s more of a UX design concern than a technical thing. Or does it have some other meaning that does not appear in Google’s first page of results and that ChatGPT is not aware of, and yet “Anyone worth any kind of respect” already implements?

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        People are free to write a GUI for it, assuming it’s free software. And you are free to not use a terminal and use any GUI alternatives.

        I mean, locking things behind a GUI definitely isn’t freedom. GUIs are very limited compared to most terminal interfaces.

        • voxel@sopuli.xyz
          7·
          9 months ago

          it’s just very hard to make a usable ui, and extremely easy to make a great cli interface

        • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
          31·
          9 months ago

          Are you kidding? There are literally hundreds of commands in the terminal which don’t have a symmetrical GUI application baked into the OS.

          Why would you create a whole GUI for a simple command such as scp and tail. Literally half of Linux is solely in the terminal

          • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
            2·
            9 months ago

            Oh ok. I guess we have a different definition of what “locked” means. One could definitely make a GUI for simple commands. Who knows, maybe some students somewhere already have.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I just feel like a heel using a key with a Windows logo printed on it to do anything of use in Linux.

      • spikespaz@programming.dev
        2·
        9 months ago

        Me too. Every once in awhile I have to remind myself that it’s not my fault that Lenovo decided to plaster a windows logo on that key. Realistically, that’s everybody’s key, and it was unfair of Microsoft to do that to us in the first place

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 months ago

    As a Linux user of 5 years, I like doing things with the GUI first, and then falling back to terminal if/when shit fucks up. It’s such a great tool.

    • elscallr@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      Which is funny because I’m the other way around. I’ll try doing something with the CLI but if it’s like a calculation or something and I can’t figure it out with awk, etc, I’ll defer to a spreadsheet.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 months ago

      As a Linux user of 10 years, sometimes I don’t touch the terminal for months, sometimes I use it every day, depends on what I’m doing. I haven’t done a lot of programming this year so I haven’t used the terminal a lot; but when playing with my microcontrollers and SBCs I use the terminal almost constantly.

      One thing I will note is that I use the keyboard a lot more than I did when I daily drove Windows. I run my computer by muscle memory a lot more than I used to.