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I know we all enjoy being nerds and using commands (H4ckerman). But now that everything is either a gui or web based, is there really any use to terminal commands?

For example, on windows I never used powershell or cmd hardly ever. I realize now I probably could have. But Linux just drives me to use it more, which i like anyway (because let's be honest, it makes us feel superior)

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[–] Poik@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Clicking? I spend most of my time typing. Even in Labview there's some typing to do. And godot requires a substantial amount of code to go with the gui side, it just has its own text editor.

But I mostly mod games these days, and I frequently need to understand the terminal api that's being used to gather and use resources because the vscode gui fails to get things set up on its own a lot. I use the terminal directly less these days. But I still interact with it daily. Heck, I even use terminal args in steam game launching to improve performance occasionally.

I mostly use the terminal for automation though. And ffmpeg.