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Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date	2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:10 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:20:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> A lot of the standard/oss tools in Linux seem to be command line based
>> (ffmpeg, imagemagick, pandoc), and its also fun to script stuff.
>
> It’s easier to stick a GUI front end on a scriptable tool than it is to 
> try to script a GUI.


Yep, because its a lot easier to construct a string to correspond to
what you need than to deal with arbritrary human preferences.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-17 11:08 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-17 23:21 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-18 16:20 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:10 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 02:49 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:28 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:13 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-18 08:55 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:22 -0700
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-18 10:41 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-18 12:41 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-18 13:40 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:44 -0700
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-18 17:50 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-18 21:01 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:09 +0000
              Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-19 08:13 +0000
                Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 08:18 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-19 09:43 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-19 10:56 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-04-19 08:22 -0400
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            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-20 12:28 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-18 17:58 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-19 07:08 -0400
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:08 +0000
        Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
          Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 01:45 +0000
            Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-22 01:56 +0000
  Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> - 2025-04-23 00:25 -0300
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> - 2025-04-25 15:19 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:22 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:21 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-26 00:34 +0000
    Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:38 +0000
      Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-26 01:24 +0000

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