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> If someone insists on using a CLI and nothing else, after all these years of the world having moved to GUIs, I wonder what prejudice is behind it. No prejud
by FerretFred 8y ago
> If someone insists on using a CLI and nothing else, after all these years of the world having moved to GUIs, I wonder what prejudice is behind it.
No prejudice.. I run a dev/comms box on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that has 512Mb of RAM. I originally set it up with a lightweight GUI which would actually start up but was pointless to try and use for anything. Reverting back to CLI meant that I could now "do stuff", and I rarely use more than 70Mb memory even with tmux running.
- wvenable 8y agoThat's nothing, I do BASIC on a Commodore 64. 70mb of RAM -- pssah! The average developer workstation probably has 32GB of RAM, a fast SSD, and huge monitors but 64k is all you really need.
- mypalmike 8y agoBah, my 1KB Timex Sinclair 1000 has labels on its "keyboard" with every BASIC keyword. I don't even have to type the whole word. Productivity!