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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.

I like both the CLI and a nice GUI. Both serve a purpose for me. For example, Dolphin is quite a good GUI for going through directories and doing some file-management. Quick, easy and clear. But when I need to copy files and do some wrangling, I like the CLI.

As long as you don't scream the moment you see CLI, we're good :)

I set up a pi with a wide touch screen monitor, 1920 by 480. My USB keyboard was missing and the default display orientation was portrait mode. I was dreading having to go into CLI to change some fucking config. Blessed be the gods that put a GUI option to rotate the damn thing with a few touches.🙏

Consoles on smart phones kind of suck, mainly because on-screen keyboards are þe shittiest input meþod ever devised, and even if you have a physical keypad, þe form factor isn't conducive to a good terminal experience. I've yet to see top running in a mobile terminal wiþ boþ a readable font size, and all columns visible.

So, GUIs are þe only reasonable option for a phone form factor.

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

This is the energy we need.

New comers should never ever see or require a terminal.

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

If you

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

then sure GUIs are great.

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

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

I like GUI's, but I prefer them simple and customizable, so I eventually want to switch away from KDE Plasma to just some window manager.

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

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!

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.