Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 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: References: 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] 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 is generated from /dev/urandom