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There is nothing productive about searching online for some stupid command that is outdated for 2 years, breaks some shit and then you need another 2 hours to unfuck it because it's not obvious from the long noodle of a command how to revert it. For something that could just be 3 clicks through control panel that every idiot could navigate without having to use online search engine.
Why are you entering commands that you read about online without knowing what they do? There's a running joke that you need to enter
rm -fr /to remove the French language from your system; it actually wipes the entire disk mounted to/.When you know what the commands do, using the terminal is always going to be faster (i.e., more productive) and use fewer system resources than using a GUI. That's just a fact, sorry if it annoys you when people point it out. Whenever I need to move a lot of stuff around, I will always use
mvinstead of Thunar (my file manager) even though I prefer a GUI for most tasks.Go to a free online AI (or run one locally) and ask it your Linux questions.
That way you won't have to dig around old forums for answers.
this method saved me years of useless search for real
There are two different "efficiency" and "simplicity" perspectives clashing here. If you already are proficient with the CLI it's arguably more efficient and/or simple than GUI solutions. If you are not then there's literally a steep learning cliff in front of you, something many in the first group apparently either forget or otherwise want to ignore. It just sucks, some people in the community do have a lot of knowledge but a complete lack of understanding for people outside of their tech bubble.
Most cli tools have a -h or a tldr entry.
Or a man page
Bold of you to assume that someone struggling with basic cli tools would read a man page.
So, I wonder what happens if we add an option for every single one of those tasks in the UI? O right!
msvc.exe is calling!
You're the type of guy we're making fun of btw
It's not the own you think it is...
I agree. For regular user facing tasks, the terminal should be a last resort. I say this as someone who will happily defer to the terminal if I need more advanced control. But when basic configuration is subject to just CLI, it's not as accessible as it could or should be