A gui is helpful sometimes, but there’s a lot of cases where there’s no feasible way to make a good gui that does what the terminal can do.

Right tools for the right job.

For example, a gui to move a file from one folder to another is nice - drag and drop.

A gui that finds all files in a directory with a max depth of 2 but excludes logs and runs grep and on matching files extracts the second field of every line in the file? Please just let me write a one liner in bash

Super + T in my case, but still...

(shhh 🤫, it's actually the win key, but don't let the Linux users hear ya 🤫)

I use Super+Return

Honestly, I like both. I use whichever provides the biggest productivity multiplier. For example, I can navigate around the filesystem and manipulate text files and code extremely quickly in the terminal. On the flip side, I like to use a gui which allows me to spread 6-12 terminal windows across my multiple displays.

The terminal is not fancy, or pretty, and its not that nice to use, but its always available and it gets the job done, just like OPs mum

I can’t say I love the terminal, if there’s a GUI for a task I’ll use that but there comes a time in every troubleshooting session where the terminal is just the only way to do something reliably.

I’m not going to lie though, I forget commands constantly so have to search the most basic shit to type in.

Mod+Enter

Intellij: Has a modern GUI for Git with code cleanup, import optimization and visualization of changes.

Me: Open terminal, 'git commit -m "wrote code" && git push'. Then realize I forgot to add half of the files, so I make another commit. Then realize I forgot to cleanup bad indents, so I make another commit. Then realize my code doesn't even build, so I make another commit, etc.

UI file manager is bloat. Mouse is bloat.

It takes a lot of energy to move from the keyboard to the mouse and back constantly, gross.

Don't forget us dyslexics though! Cli is rough on that, but gui tends to avoid the errors a typo can cause.

I swear, having to copy/paste stuff in terminal to avoid typing the damn commands five times is way less convenient.

I get it, Linux veterans love the terminal because it is efficient and capable. But there's multiple reasons for a gui interface for common tasks, accessibility being the biggest.

Super + T my favorite

I prefer Super + Return

Terminal = freedom

Say I wanted to make a bunch of folders with sequentially numbered names, and the same sub folders in them.

This would take ages with a GUI but you can do it with one line in the terminal

$mod+Return crew wherr you at

As a Linux user of 5 years, I like doing things with the GUI first, and then falling back to terminal if/when shit fucks up. It's such a great tool.

nushell is pretty modern ^and^ ^written^ ^in^ ^rust^

I'm the kind that never opens a file manager other than to move stuff from one directory to another

Tbf quite often there just isn't a good gui for what I need or for some reason the GUI just doesn't do what it should

I use Arch and I like GUI

Super+Return