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zeflonex2 2 days ago [-]
Life is too short for a terminal period
I really dont get the hype around terminal tools
Most of the time the GUI experience is the same or better than terminal tools
brudgers 1 days ago [-]
In a Turing machine theory, a GUI application can do all the same things a terminal application can do.
In practical design, GUI applications inevitably deprecate keyboard abstractions in favor of graphical abstractions and graphical abstractions require parsing visual representations and are less conducive to "muscle memory" whenever pointer control is relative rather than absolute (which these days is approximately always [1]).
Keyboard oriented applications feel more like a language and human brains tend to map well to language and touch typing while GUI's rely on something akin (or identical) to hand-eye coordination. Hand-eye coordination is harder than touch typing and every GUI application requires developing a unique mental model.
[1] in the ancient days of digitizing tablets with absolute coordinates, it was possible to "touch mouse." But that's not how we do things today (and it would not work well with infinite scrolling, etc.)
doubled112 1 days ago [-]
I happily used a small Wacom graphics tablet as a mouse for a long time. Thanks for the memories, I’d nearly forgotten.
johnthescott 1 days ago [-]
"gui"? what gui?
my take is terminal is just quicker than "gui".
dismalaf 1 days ago [-]
Terminal tools are nice because keyboard shortcuts and text commands are quicker than clicking through menus and pressing buttons. For certain types of work (programming for example) this is much quicker and more comfortable than GUI interfaces.
Of course, other tasks are nicer with a GUI and/or mouse/tablet/touchscreen (art creation for example).
johng 2 days ago [-]
Depends on what you grew up on/learned I think. CLI was the only thing around when I learned so that's still what I prefer. It's one of those things where I think you use the tool that you are proficient with. No right or wrong, just different strokes for different folks.
I really dont get the hype around terminal tools
Most of the time the GUI experience is the same or better than terminal tools
In practical design, GUI applications inevitably deprecate keyboard abstractions in favor of graphical abstractions and graphical abstractions require parsing visual representations and are less conducive to "muscle memory" whenever pointer control is relative rather than absolute (which these days is approximately always [1]).
Keyboard oriented applications feel more like a language and human brains tend to map well to language and touch typing while GUI's rely on something akin (or identical) to hand-eye coordination. Hand-eye coordination is harder than touch typing and every GUI application requires developing a unique mental model.
[1] in the ancient days of digitizing tablets with absolute coordinates, it was possible to "touch mouse." But that's not how we do things today (and it would not work well with infinite scrolling, etc.)
my take is terminal is just quicker than "gui".
Of course, other tasks are nicer with a GUI and/or mouse/tablet/touchscreen (art creation for example).