I've started to feel dirty clicking on icons like some sort of peasant.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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I don't mind a batch/script. But give me text over fancy GUIs any day
But it's actually better!
I know it's easy to think that it's about showing off, but honestly, the Linux graphical tools are much worse than the command line most of the time.
Installing software is much faster and more reliable using the command line than any graphical tool I've used.
What gives me real power is sudo.
The nicest aspect, for me, is that I rarely need to do something just once. So while I sometimes prefer a GUI workflow for a simple one-off, if it's something I may end up repeating, then I'd rather have a command-line approach which can be chucked in a shell script, run by cron, or easily invoked over ssh on my phone.
But for highly interactive things (e.g., reading email), I'll stick to GUI solutions like a pleb.
A dirty linux admin here. Imagine you get ssh'd in nginx log folder and all you want to know are all the ips that have been beating againts certain URL in around last let's say last seven days and getting 429 most frequent first. In kittie script its like find -mtime -7 -name "*access*" -exec zgrep $some_damed_url {} \; | grep 429 | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | less depends on how y'r logs look (and I assume you've been managing them - that's where the zgrep comes from) should be run in tmux and could (should?) be written better 'n all - but my point is - do that for me in gui
(I'm waiting ⏲)
As a general rule, I will have most of my app and system logs sent to a central log aggregation server. Splunk, log entries, even cloudwatch can do this now.
But you are right, if there is an archaic server that you need to analyse logs from, nothing beats a find/grep/sed
I know it's faster and even easier for many things, but it's with great shame that I would rather mess with network interfaces via GUI than on command line. nmtui is a poor substitute.
I wish I was better at using the terminal. I'm running EndeavourOS as my daily driver, so I use it a lot but I wish I was even more comfortable with it. Are there any good crash courses available for noobs?
Linuxcommand.org is a great start. Writing shell scripts and using cli programs for things you actually need and will use will greatly accelerate learning. I stopped using a file manager entirely to force myself to learn how to get around, then switched to neovim from vscodium, taskwarrior instead of Obsidian Tasks, termdown for timers, etc. A tiling wm makes the transition easier imo because you can have many terminals open for visual multitasking. Like with anything, you'll get better faster if you just do it a bunch and don't be afraid to mess up and get your hands dirty.