Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:40:05 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: the-candyden-of-code
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <slrn100dhs7.1c44n.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid>
References: <slrn1001o8j.lgn.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
 <slrn1003371.1gth.ronb02NOSPAM@3020m.home>
 <slrn1004ul7.2d36b.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid>
 <vtupm2$496v$5@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:40:06 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="374d2dabba90570ec259492ec65d732e";
	logging-data="3359066"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182aqtj8hZipRmBMimguB+J98ShzofrrCPOzfsWWW2tGA=="
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:GQI3GfnEvkqLxiYwwW+H1LJs1k0=
X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]%
 b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx
 `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e
 ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA]<D
Bytes: 2017

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