• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The thing is, without a unified GUI it’s impossible to get an answer to “how to X on Linux” that doesn’t involve the CLI (and that’ll work for everyone). Even the ones that do are often distro-dependent.

      People can still get things done by searching for “how to X on <distro> using the GUI”.

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      6 months ago

      CLI can be good. The benefit of CLI is that it is fairly easy to build GUI front ends on top of a solid based.

      Not to mention CLI makes “quick fixes” easier.

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              6 months ago

              That’s what a lot of GUI apps are. They either call the CLI program directly or make calls to a library provided by or for CLI.

              Compare that to a GUI focused OS like Windows were the GUI is built into the low level architecture.