• @justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    02 months ago

    I use CLI a lot because I find it much more convenient, so I’m genuinely curious where do you actually still need it in a modern distro as a standard user?

    • @Cort@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      I just use it to get updates with apt-get or Pacman or yay. I haven’t seen any other way to update non flatpack programs on the distros I use

        • @Cort@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          I’m a recent convert, so I picked KDE since it looked familiar. Might try gnome in the future tho, since I hear a lot of good things about it.

          • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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            KDE has a GUI app called Discover that will do Flatpaks as well as other package management systems. It shows me RPM packages that I normally update with zypper

          • WrittenInRed [any]
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            02 months ago

            For arch at least there’s a widget you can add that does the same thing, it can show the number of available updates and works with pacman, yay, and a few other AUR package managers too.

      • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        I actually use KDE’s discover to apply all the updates (flathub and yum). Mainly because I’m lazy and the update icon appears and it’s quick to just click through.

        • @Cort@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          I just checked and it doesn’t seem to pick up all the updates that pacman or yay does. Looks like, among other things it’s missing updates for samba, konsole, and plasma-addons

          • @justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            02 months ago

            That is probably very distro dependent, I’m currently using bazzite on my daily driver and there the “updater” goes over absolutely everything: system images, custom dnf packages, containers, apt-get inside distrobox, flatpak… I guess also Android apps in way droid, but that I haven’t gotten into yet.

    • @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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      02 months ago

      It’s not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.

      • @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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        02 months ago

        In my experience learning Windows 10 for my job, the results of searching for how to do something are: ‘click-this’ tutorials that don’t work because Microsoft changed something in the next edition, editing the registry, or PowerShell commands. The registry editing sometimes doesn’t work because Microsoft changed something. The PowerShell method is the way to go, because Microsoft has embraced the command line.

      • TurboWafflz
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        02 months ago

        Which is honestly a good thing, it’s so much better than instructions that are like click here -> drag to the left -> open a three level deep menu -> check the box -> reopen that menu -> click go. Or even worse, instructions that are a video

    • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      02 months ago

      Hmm, mount a network drive, or any drive? On Windows it’s a few clicks in Explorer, but I’m not aware of it being that easy on any distro I used. Always had to go into /etc/fstab manually

    • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      Well, the thing is, you almost don’t. But like the other commenter said, most instructions are for terminal when something happens and from my - fairly limited as of now - experience, terminal is still key to linux configuration.

      What was mostly generating the Ew response was the fact that linux isn’t really known for being newbie friendly. Then getting hit with headless debian during studies also didn’t exactly change what I thought.