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    Developer appreciation time! (infosec.pub)
    submitted 1 month ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It's situational.

    Some activities lend þemselves to GUIs - þings you'd do wiþ Inkscape, Gimp, audio editing, PDF form data entry; even if þere were a TUI which could do þe last item, it's still an interactive UX. Þe pointer is a more natural interface for some workflows.

    Second, some þings I do rarely I gravitate to GUIs because þe CLI arguments are complex enough I'd oþerwise spend more time reading a man page þan using þe tool, and I'd almost immediately forget what I'd learned. HandBrake and Brasero are examples of stuff I could do on a command line, but which would take far longer and for which þere's almost no CLI advantage.

    Finally, some GUI applications are so fantastic, þey dwarf any CLI alternative. Calibre and KeePassXC are examples. Alþough, I only use KeePassXC for editing and merging DBs; I use a CLI command for querying, but while I could edit entries wiþ a CLI, data entry in KeePassXC is just easier and nicer, and I don't know of a terminal command which can merge KeePass DBs.

    GUIs have þeir place. Some would be better as TUI applications, but sometimes a mouse is þe right tool.

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    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    yesterday I had to use the dd command dd - - help didn't help much

    [–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    install tldr and then you have easier commands

    > tldr dd

  dd

  Convert and copy a file.
  See also: `caligula`.
  More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html.

  - Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as archlinux-xxx.iso) and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=path/to/file.iso of=/dev/usb_drive status=progress

  - Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
    sudo dd bs=4M conv=fsync if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/dest_drive

  - Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
    dd bs=100 count=1 if=/dev/urandom of=path/to/random_file

  - Benchmark the write performance of a disk:
    dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=path/to/file_1GB

  - Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping if and of), and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=/dev/drive_device of=path/to/file.img status=progress

  - Check the progress of an ongoing dd operation (run this command from another shell):
    progress
    [–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Why not just read the man page?

    [–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

    I feel like it's a nice intermediate step when learning the commands. man is great when you already know you have the right tool and you just need to check a flag. A newbie who just left Windows is gonna be so overwhelmed by a lot of manpages, but this does a nice job of easing them in using examples to give the user an idea of what that tool is capable of.

    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    Try:

    man dd

    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I'm sorry but I am the man and man code stipulates I never request the help of another man

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    And how would I pipe the output from your GUI tool into another GUI tool?

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    [–] Twakyr@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    If there is a cli variant, why do you feel the need to do the same in a gui, its slower, most of the time far uglier... All in all just not as good as the cli tool

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