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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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I bet that doesn't exist: nobody would put work in a program that lets just restricts what you can do with zero usability advantages (ok someone might)
If you fear you might run unsafe commands just save whatever you are comfortable running in scripts and restrict yourself to run those instead of manually typing commands you don't fully remember/understand.
BTW: topgrade will detect what needs updating in your system (your distro's package manager, flatpak, python stuff, ... whatever) and update all the things
BTW: "terminal emulator" is the program that shows you text in a window, the program that runs inside it and validates/interprets your commands is a "shell" (the one you are using is most probably bash)
Calling it "terminal emulator" was a poor word usage on my end, yeah. I do not fear myself running command line though. I just want to avoid CLI.