Is this a take from the 1980s?
Of course cli and TUIs are great. However they aren’t as discoverable and harder to learn than a nice GUI.
Is vim or eMacs great? Sure, but so is Visual Code for other reasons.
cli and TUI suck at drag and drop and copy and paste between applications.
I solved the drag and drop issue with dragon. Copying and pasting depends purely on your terminal emulator, no?
Which terminal emulator copies with ctrl+c?
Most terminal emulators will copy with
Ctrl+Shift+c. I’m using foot, if you set this part of your config, it will copy with justCtrl+c.[key-bindings] clipboard-copy=Control+c XF86CopyBut now for most shells you don’t have a keybind to send SIGINT, which is very commonly used.
Exactly
Well, I didn’t exist in 1980s. So this is how I feel as a 2000s kid and current software engineer.
I think good ideas are worth updating for new generations.
I agree that CLI and keyboard driven systems are powerful and should be further developed. New terminal emulators like Kitty, Nerd fonts, and Lazyvim show what’s possible.
That’s a lot of words to say “GUIs, TUIs and CLIs are good at different things”
And most of writing of gnu and fsf are a lot of words to say “free software good proprietary software bad” for example?
That’s why we write! :) When I say “I prefer CLI and TUI over GUI” I might need to explain why. And explain when a GUI might be a better option. I write these for myself and my friends and colleagues mostly. I just happen to share them on the internet :)
How does btop compare against a GTK+ task manager in terms of memory usage when you include the terminal emulator in the btop count? It’d be a more technically correct comparison that way.
Great point. But to be honest I already have an emulator open 99% of the time. So there’s no particular overhead for me. But I will include your point in the update. Thank you for your time!