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Shit, just linux.

Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though… go nuts

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[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This is not something I’d ask of developers, but I like having a GUI for initially learning all the options and flags. It’s nice having a visual of which parameters are allowed together, where order matters, which ones accept arguments, etc. This is partly how I learned Ffmpeg back when I was still using Windows.

Once I’ve got a high level understanding, then I’m headed for the terminal.

Realistically I have a text editor putting a script or complex command together with the man page open on another screen. Not as friendly but generally works.

I don’t see TUIs a lot. Usually they are very linear. Would be interesting to see one with more of a 2D array of options.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with this but I will say the tldr package is a life saver when GUI is not an option

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man I’m installing this. Thank you!

Wow, thank you, I've installed this.

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