Nothing wrong with a GUI. There's a reason they exist and have mostly replaced TUIs, with the exception of some developer / power user tools. It's significantly easier to discover features in a GUI compared to a CLI or TUI for example. The UX can be far richer.

CLI tools are easier to make due to the simplified UX, but I'm hoping that something we see as a result of increased AI usage is that programs that should be GUI apps are actually built as such, rather than complex CLI or TUI ones.

I do too.

I love GUIs, TUI and CLI, there are use cases for all three

Someone finally said it! I admire your courage. o7

I like guis for being introduced to software, and clis for stuff im already familiar with. They're both fun to say though, so you wont catch me disrespecting either.

Gooey. Klee.

Don't let random nerds on the internet make you feel any way about how you use Linux. Live your life and be happy. There's too much bullshit in the world to pay attention to jerks with keyboards.

I CAN interact with CLI, but i WANT to interact with good GUI. I don't want to learn CLI commands when I don't have to. Especially in the cases where I use it rarely

It's pretty cool how both GUI lovers and terminal enthusiasts can have a great time using Linux

Is this a meme or a picture you choose. Either way, I love it! And I feel with same by the way.

I like GUIs for a handle of simple on and off options. Like quick connect to VPN.

I have a good example of "both are useful" on my second screen right now, but it's a difference in output and not input. I was watching system resource utilization a few minutes ago while running something, so I have plasma's graphical System Monitor on half the screen while I have a big ole terminal window with htop running next to it.

The GUI side uses the speed and bandwitdth of our visual processing to communicate complex historical data about a handful of values very quickly. It does it with graphs that, while accurate and to scale, are a bit analog and imprecise feeling to the eye.

The text-based side uses the speed and bandwidth of the hardware to show me a huge 2D array of values that constantly updates. It does it with monospaced text in a high-readability font that is very clear and precise.

The GUI does more processing on the computer first to communicate quickly about the targeted values, while the text side leaves more of that processing to be done on my end. But that's not a negative, because I can search through those hundreds of values as quickly as my eyes can dart around the screen. There's no navigating a GUI that quickly.

In general when it comes to GUI vs CLI, I like GUIs too. I am just old enough that I remember how awesome it was to start using graphical desktops and file managers and computer mice and all that. But I'm an engineer who uses the terminal every single day, and I often just leave it open when I'm at work with a bunch of monitors. To me, any decent computer must have a powerful CLI and text-based configuration and scripting and all that.

For most USERs, the GUI is all that matters. And since the GUI needs to be simple and rock solid, it can be advantageous to just leave the arcane shit in the text files and not try to cram everything into the GUI. If I want to change my screen resolution, system fonts, or change my network connection, I expect to find that in the GUI and I'll just go there. But when I want to be the dork customizing the colors on my GRUB screen or tweaking the swap/cache behavior of my OS, I'm quite glad to edit text for those.

Linux has GUIs for any setting you could need.

Windows has the registry and random PowerShell commands from the internet if the setting is even something you can change.

So Nano then!?

I feel for you so I gave you an upvote. Here's a hug too: 🤗

before I made the switch to Linux I never used a terminal. never. hell on Windows I even used a GUI for Git. I used sublime text as my IDE. if it wasn't a GUI I was lost.

Then I switched to Linux and it forced me to actually sit down and learn the terminal and now...now I have a hard time using GUI's. If something has a CLI or TUI option then I go for that over a GUI. like everything even my music player and video player. my IDE of choice now is DOOM Emacs. my file manager is Yazi. for Git I either use lazygit or just straight up the command line. but for everything else it's just so much faster and in the long run easier to just use the terminal.

All that being said if you like GUI's then hey more power to you and that's fine. that's the beauty of Linux. you run your system how you want to and don't let others tell you otherwise. Hell I know a guy that uses NixOS and doesn't have anything installed other than git and comma. he runs everything via comma. literally everything.

When it doesn't have a GUI I make one for it.

As long as you don't use GNOME as a good example of a good GUI

That’s legal… for now.

Everyone else is like: is it git checkout -b or git branch --set-upstream-to?

I like both, but I think I would like cli better if the syntax were more expressive, and more akin to natural human language.