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Ari::web -> Blog
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GUIs are useless
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2021-12-20 19:34:03 EET |
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back
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<a href="/">
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home
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git
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GUIs are useless. They are usually an unnecessary abstraction over simple things. Not even a
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lightweight one.
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Take for example DMs (display managers), they are just a bloated, useless and annoying
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abstractions over a simple TTY login. They don't even have proper logging or error reporting and you get no TTY or just a shell
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to debug in, you just get logged out with no logs, error reporting nor a shell.
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Most things you do in a GUIs is easily achieved in the CLI, like idk, managing files.
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With a GUI it's more complicated, for example in a GUI:
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Open file manager
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Find the path
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Find the correct icon
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Select icon
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Drag icon to folder1
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Check you didn't mess up by trying to find the icon again
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</ul>
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While with the CLI you can just:
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<code>
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mv file1 folder1
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<code>
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ls file1
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</code>
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</li>
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</ul>
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GUIs are not easier in any way, they are useless, bloated garbage which is unnecessary for
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<em>
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most
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</em>
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things
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<p>
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CLI is also much much much smaller, less complicated and more lightweight, where GUIs are not.
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And now on the topic of being lightweight, why are GUIs so heavy??? They're supposed to be
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just simple abstractions over the CLI and not computer 823284327942th number of the
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Fibonacci sequence every second.
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GUIs are unnecessary as hell, that's why my goal is to go full TTY, but I still haven't found
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a good solution to firefox for example.
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