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Arch with gnome? cursed, I say

Libcaca renderer for Metro Exodus would be… intriguing.

You know what, i just drop my personal list of noteworthy shell-tools here (note directfb2 and twin). And edir, clipboard, pass and portal/croc for the win.

alternatives

• fd: simpler find
• bat: nicer cat
• lsd: ls with NerdFont icons
• broot: smarter tree

GUI alternatives

• draw: mouse drawing on the shell!
• imgfb: Draws a farbfeld or jpeg image to the Linux framebuffer
• baca: TUI e-book reader
• Terminal Image Viewer (tiv): what it says
• FIM: framebuffer image viewer -;derasterize: cli pixel to ANSI converter cli video playing: mpv --gpu-context=drm
• ts-polkitagent: Polkit Agent for the Shell (old)
• fbterm: framebuffer terminal
• twin: Textmode WINdow environment
• directfb2: framebuffer desktop
• csv to ascii art table via python pandas

Task Management:

• dun: note-taking & task manager
• cubby: encrypted note taking to cloud, with markdown
• girok: TUI calendar

Services:

• matrixcli: what it says
• yewtube: Terminal based YouTube player and downloader

File Manager:

• clifm: nice shell file manager with tagging
• nnn: cli fm with split-view file preview
• TUIFI Manager: cli fm with rendered images in 2D layout
• xplr: hackable, minimal, TUI fm

Login Manager:

• CDM: shell login manager with history
• Qingy: directfb login manager

Others:

• buku - shell bookmark-manager - GitHub

ease of use

• edir: rename with text file
• clipboard: shell clipboard manager & more
• portal: cli file transfer agent between computers
• croc: simple file transfer tool via local server, Android Appp too
• transfer.sh: cli file sharing via cloud
• detox: file name cleanup
• ouch: simple de/compressor
• mnamer: intelligent video renamer
• gum: bells and whistles for shell scripters
• pytermgui: bells and whistles for python scripters

If someone has more/better tools, please shout.

Linu

Brilliant, also works for Wayland systems

It really depends.

For formatting drives i.e. i much prefer the GUI.

It also has an easy explanation:

1. Programmer wants to solve a problem, writes some functions, can call them from main()
2. Programmer is also Sysadmin, can't be bothered compiling stuff for every simple thing, so adds a CLI parser to call the different functions from main()
3. End user wants a GUI... but Sysadmin already has all they want on the CLI, so maybe someone puts up some GUI when they're bored, or it really, really, really makes sense... or end user is SOL

I totally dare you to install Arch without ever creating another account. Just reboot as root and use the computer as root forever. Despite all the warnings against it.

sudo su root

I dunno. There is something empowering whenever windows-super users find out you (almost) never have to reboot to update.

(Just for the kernel, then all it is, is a reboot. I like windows where it requires installation while booting- actually.) (Okay, so I just run the command line on startup automatically. You’re right.)

Linux is so awesome because of scripting and automation. It's just there, an expected thing it wants the user to do. My favorite thing about automation and scripting is how you can write a script in the terminal and make it part of the GUI experience. Everyone has their own preference about how to edit a file. I've been writing scripts since the 1990s, so I'm just used to doing that in the terminal. The OS has evolved since then so much. So, I write up my script in the terminal, then I turn it into something I can click on and run when I need to, on top of scheduling its execution. I think that's really special and unique about Linux now. Mac OS was like that in the past. It got less so over the years and Apple made it harder for the user to do this. Linux has maintained this type of thing that has always been since UNIX and I really think it is a driving force for the future of computing. It now stands as the only OS that allows the user to customize his or her experience through scripting as a totally functional and integrated aspect of the OS. You don't have to do anything special to get scripting to work. It comes to you this way. You just write your script. You decide how you want to execute your script, which can even include executing it in the GUI if you want. Microsoft Windows never had this and is desperately trying to catch up, but in order to do it on that OS, it's very clunky. Linux right now is the only OS available that allows you to do exactly what you've described. You only have to do it once if you have the know-how. And it's just there. No special things to install or create.

As a general rule, I will have most of my app and system logs sent to a central log aggregation server. Splunk, log entries, even cloudwatch can do this now.

But you are right, if there is an archaic server that you need to analyse logs from, nothing beats a find/grep/sed

In splunk this is a pretty straightforward query and can be piped to stats count and sorted. I don't know if you'd exactly count that as gui though.

You should. It feels great to install Linux on things.

Or vim. Both are fine choices.