• squiblet
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    02 years ago

    “Guessing commands” isn’t the way to go about it. Read the man pages. Read the help for commands. Read a tutorial or some examples.

    • @Chickerino@feddit.nl
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      12 years ago

      that’s just extra friction, with UIs you can explore and figure out at a glance roughly what a button will do

      • squiblet
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        12 years ago

        It’s possible to do amazing things with a CLI in seconds that would be minutes of clicking with a GUI - that’s why they still exist. And sure, it’s tuned towards people who would be “how about I write a Python program to handle this”.

    • @bleistift2@feddit.de
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      12 years ago

      That’s exactly my point. You can’t explore a CLI. You need to rely on external resource to first learn how to use it. That’s just not something you can ask of people who want to use computers as tools. When’s the last time you read your car manual?