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Good GUI are hard to make while a good cli is rather easy.

Nothing wrong with a GUI that does what it needs without fluff.

I think people are just too rigid sometimes. Some workflows are better in GUIs, some are better in CLIs. They both have upsides and downsides depending on what you're doing, and it's totally fine to prefer one to the other. Just don't let your preference keep you from learning and using other great tools!

That's totally fine. GUIs let us theme our terminal windows, tile them, jiggle them around, maybe even make them wobbly!!!

This is the energy we need.

New comers should never ever see or require a terminal.

before I made the switch to Linux I never used a terminal. never. hell on Windows I even used a GUI for Git. I used sublime text as my IDE. if it wasn't a GUI I was lost.

Then I switched to Linux and it forced me to actually sit down and learn the terminal and now...now I have a hard time using GUI's. If something has a CLI or TUI option then I go for that over a GUI. like everything even my music player and video player. my IDE of choice now is DOOM Emacs. my file manager is Yazi. for Git I either use lazygit or just straight up the command line. but for everything else it's just so much faster and in the long run easier to just use the terminal.

All that being said if you like GUI's then hey more power to you and that's fine. that's the beauty of Linux. you run your system how you want to and don't let others tell you otherwise. Hell I know a guy that uses NixOS and doesn't have anything installed other than git and comma. he runs everything via comma. literally everything.

I like good GUIs. There are GUIs that are clean, responsive, well designed, and full-featured.

Sadly, that is rare nowadays, regardless if the software is FOSS or not.

It seems like for proprietary software, the corporate approach is to design slow, boring GUIs that lack most/all advanced functionality. It's designed for dumb users who just want to click and swipe.

FOSS on the other hand rarely has full or even part time UI/UX devs due to the cost. So often the GUIs are clunky, messy, and a horrible pain to navigate. The upside is that they usually have extremely deep features, but good luck finding them.

If I have to pick, FOSS all the way, but I wish I didn't have to. There are a few FOSS programs that have very nice UIs, Bitwarden, Protonmail, Musescore, Godot, and many are getting better, but the landscape is still rough out there.

As for CLI, I prefer it for some things, it's just faster depending on the function. I find myself operating with a hybrid setup now days. I have become proficient enough with the command line that I can switch seamlessly between my GUI environments and the CLI-only environments. I don't really think about it much anymore.

I'm undecided with modern GUI because most modern software is just a web page now. And it will offer you a choice between boring light mode and boring dark mode.

I miss the days of GTK2 with hundreds of themes. It was one of the main reason I switched to Linux; the customization. I don't know how many hours I must have spent on gnome-look.org. Now I don't even bother to try new themes and just use Fluent-Dark. My desktop is boring and looks like everyone else that has a dark mode. I really really miss GTK2 and all my favourite themes I can't use anymore. I tried making my own and played around with Oomox but it's not the same.

But one thing that I do prefer to be GUI now is IRC. Now that there are web clients (sigh) that can display images and videos directly in the channels, chatting in text mode only is kind of annoying with all the links we are sharing.

I can and will terminal things, but the GUI is there so why not?

I CAN interact with CLI, but i WANT to interact with good GUI. I don't want to learn CLI commands when I don't have to. Especially in the cases where I use it rarely

I still do updates and most package installs through my terminal, but anything else I look for a GUI solution. I'm lazy.

If you

• need discoverability, or
• don't need anything composable

then sure GUIs are great.

I generally prefer GUIs, but sometimes the terminal is just easier!

The thing about CLI is that everything is hidden by default. You come to the application with your own mindset and a goal in mind and you figure out how make it do what you want.
When there's a GUI, you often see everything that's possible from the start and so the application dictates how you use it.

Though, you can do either with CLI and GUI as well. That's the sweet spot I think is the best. I love it when a CLI app guides the user through a process and gives options. And a good GUI should disable OK buttons and show validation errors if not everything is entered correctly.

In a perfect world, every app has a CLI mode, interactive and non interactive and a GUI mode with full validation and responsive UI changes. But realistically, good UX is what we need, either GUI or CLI.

okay, that was always allowed

I like GUIs but I also like automation. Give me a nice simple GUI but also give me a way to run from a bash shell so I can automate functions based on complex conditions and/or a schedule.

An original confession bear post? Out here in the Lemmy wilds? Excellent.

I like GUIs if they aren't web browsers pretending to be a desktop applications.

If we want the year of the Linux desktop to actually happen we need to have good GUI tools for almost everything. The second you say "command line" most people's eyes glaze over and they say they'll stick with Windows. Believe it or not guys, most people just want something that functions out of the box and they don't want to mess with it.

I like tuis

They are good for discoverability, but suck when you have to do the same thing 5 times.

-- signed, a guy currently having to use a GUI to update the firmware on 5 headsets, and put our standard settings on them

I do too.

In the same way some GUIs are trash, lord have mercy some CLIs are trash. Things like adding two verbose flags makes it extra verbose. Things like the parameter order mattering. Yeesh. It can be rough. It really varies tool by tool.

It's pretty cool how both GUI lovers and terminal enthusiasts can have a great time using Linux

Everyone else is like: is it git checkout -b or git branch --set-upstream-to?

Being using computers since 1992. I learned with DOS and SCO Unix.

I prefer GUIs, thank you very much.

Even when the only available option for me was Windows 3.1, I still preferred it over the CMD.

A well designed GUI should give you fast access to what you need and allow you to get things done easily. 

Nothing wrong with that at all.