• MangoPenguin@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    I always figured anyone wanting a different shell is probably heavily into Linux to the point that switching it themselves would be fairly trivial.

    Is CachyOS a more CLI focused desktop linux? I’m not very familiar with it. Normally on a desktop I avoid the CLI, because the GUI is just easier and faster to use.

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      11 hours ago

      GUI is often faster to learn, but CLI is almost always faster to use. It’s the argument people use for why they choose it. You don’t have to move your mouse to click on buttons that can be anywhere. You just type. With tab completion, it’s significantly faster.

      (There is a secondary argument for CLI for tutorials, in that it’s going to be the same or similar for everyone.)

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        2 hours ago

        I agree CLI is faster for tasks I do often, but for one-off stuff or rare tasks where I will forget the CLI args, it’s significantly slower having to look up the right commands each time.

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          2 hours ago

          Again, GUI is faster to learn, CLI is faster to use.

          TLDR really helps though, rather than man pages.

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        10 hours ago

        If you don’t count looking up parameters in man pages. GUIs are great because you don’t need to remember or look up commands and parameters. GUIs have keyboard shortcuts as well.

        CLI is great when doing the same complex operation more than once, chaining program output, and such.

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      21 hours ago

      Sort of, its Arch so all of the fun stuff that goes with that but they also have a package repo application that let’s you use a GUI instead. I find the CLI faster but the GUI will guide you to the correct packages a bit better than searching freehand on a browser.