New #blog post: Why I Love the Command Line
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I was grappling with a much heavier subject for a blost, but thankfully, I had this extra little subject in my back pocket, just ready to be picked up and written on much more easily and enjoyably than mental health stuff. ;)
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Unknown parent • • •Dave
in reply to R.L. Dane šµ • • •Well done, as always. I appreciate using terminal to just get stuff done, though I tend to lean more on GUI. But if terminal brings you Vulcan joy, that's great then!
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in reply to Dave • • •I'll do a follow up on how I do file management from the terminal. It's not quite as dull as only using basic commands like
cd, but it's not a full terminal file manager likeranger, either.But I think tomorrow's #blost will be a little bit more meta (and I don't mean the idiot company that's destroying the world) XD
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in reply to Dave • • •I'd probably use GUIs more if they were more keyboard-navigable.
But there are some things that GUIs are just better at. Namely, art. Probably a handful of other things. ;)
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in reply to R.L. Dane šµ • • •R.L. Dane šµ
in reply to 12 Dollar General • • •Thanks! It felt a little schlocky and disorganized to me. I was trying to get something out because the heavier subject was getting clogged in my "writing pipes." XD
I actually think modern #Linux/#UNIX #TUI programs could learn a lot from #MSDOS programs of old.
Especially Lotus 1-2-3. That had a very novel model for interaction that I've never quite seen replicated.
I'll have to find a vm of it somewhere and play with it again, after 31 years ;)
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in reply to 12 Dollar General • • •Cameron Bosch
in reply to R.L. Dane šµ • • •I love the terminal too.
I especially love seeing pacman go across the screen with pacman -Syu
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Unknown parent • • •Clayton
in reply to R.L. Dane šµ • • •you do have more fingers than mouse pointers. Seems more efficient to me.
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