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It's not a blank screen. It's a canvas. You just don't know how to paint.
I have too sneezed with a nosebleed, those are spurious allegations
Me, not being a programmer or sysadmin or whatever, booting into TTY just for shits and giggles, playing videos via mpv with -vo=tct just cause I think it looks funny
Neat. Nearly watchable. I tried kitty/sixel options but those are too high-res and cause even more frame-drops (at least on the older hardware I tested it on, no drops playing with normal mpv), with a 360p video it's isn't scaled up.
Then again, I guess it's a whole lot more watchable than the blinkenlights (Starwars) thing via telnet.
Look I just switched over from Windows, I'm new to this shit lol. I enjoy using commands while I'm learning them but mostly I just copy/paste from instruction manuals on how to install shit I want installed. Makes me feel like a master hacker.
I think itβs just been stigmatized by society as a whole for some mysterious reason. Didnβt a lot of our grandmothers slashed through terminals like fruit ninjas back in the day?
Heck yeah they did! I remember going over to my grandmothers house to use Word on her computer running DOS. She used that computer to keep her personal budget, do the accounting for her office supply business, write letters, and the newsletters for her church and social clubs. No gui, just a command line and some things that we would now call a TUI.
GUI is simpler because you have to remember a sequence of steps for every action you want to take and then memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and then do it all again when they reinvent their product in two weeks.
CLI requires you to learn how your system is structured and where things are located and then you create scripts that last years. Not everyone wants to put in a bunch of effort just to use their computer.
Anyways Firefox just updated and they moved "save to collection" and a few other things so now I need to relearn some stuff. I hope my other apps don't reinvent themselves anytime soon. Every update I know how to use them less and less.
A regular user will never in a million years create a script.
How will they transfer their pirated media to their NAS? Manually? Every time?
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I'm a CLI enjoyer. It's easier for me to define what I often do as a bash function than to remember which button to click in a GUI app. It's easier for me to copy paste a StackOverflow answer than to zoom the screenshot only to find out that the UI has changed. And I'm too lazy to move my mouse when I can do it with a Neovim keymap.
I feel like the meme got it backwards. People fussing over WMs in the middle, while newbies and veterans just using whatever comes by default on Fedora
What comes default on fedora KDE spin
Bugs.
Less so than Windows, but still more than most DE.
Sure
I don't wear hats cos am busy using debian
Maybe you could wear a Fedora.
I have a beautiful head of hair. I don't need no hat.
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Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.
Why is it constantly booting to a black screen with text?
This is easy, just install steam and go
Ahh the beauty of this Debian server, don't even need to get out of my sofa because I have SSH on my phone.
The HTC Dream was the peak of Phone SSH.
There was no key combo I couldn't input, no vim mode I couldn't use!
There was a VNC client! I could RDP to Windows machines!
I could have even used EMACS!
I mean, I wouldn't, I'm not some kind of monster, but I could have, and that's what's important!
GUI has the fundamental advantage that you can mostly find your way around without having to know commands, syntax, file paths etc. That's a huge advantage for the vast majority of users.
yea as much as like using the command line, I'm having a hard time remembering all the options required, especially with things i use rarely. the discoverability is just better in GUIs
TUI enjoyer π
"...if you're lucky!"
Can't and don't want to are two different things.
Oh no, I have to open a text file with a convenient list of all the settings for this application. How awful.
If it was convenient, every single GUI would just use that as a settings menu.
If it was up to me they would. Instead they have 14 layers of menus you have to click through to find what you're looking for if they have it at all.
The only inconvenient part about using the terminal is knowing the command to get into the configuration files. Once you've done it a few times it's simple. People just don't want to do even the minor effort to learn that which is why these days we're stuck with all these shit applications you can't reconfigure at all.
Complex settings have a search function.
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