If you're using a GUI, that means whatever you're doing you're not doing a lot of it, since you don't need to automate it. I would expect a world-class enterprise engineer to be able to automate most tasks, and from that they would be very comfortable with the command line.

Can you do everything with a GUI that you can on a command line? Yeah probably, if the developer is at all the features properly. Can you automate it easily? No not at all. So the more you do something the more you tend to want to deal with the vocabulary of the command line because it's more expressive and allows for automation.

I will die on this hill!

[–] Newusername4oldfart@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Depends on what system you’re running, and especially what task you’re doing. Trying to operate firewall rules via CLI is an exercise in self-inflicted pain, as is trying to set a complex cron schedule without a handy calculator.

[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL there are people configuring firewalls via GUIs. Okay … I‘m do that too on my private equipment because I’m lazy. But it feels wrong doing so in an enterprise context.

[–] Newusername4oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You using a Cisco firewall or something?

[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using F5 in the past. Not doing that anymore though.

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