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I think it's matter of usability and taste. As a programmer who uses CLI applications daily I still find GUI applications far superior to those tasks for which
by fsloth 5y ago
I think it's matter of usability and taste. As a programmer who uses CLI applications daily I still find GUI applications far superior to those tasks for which I don't have the CLI commands imprinted in my tactile memory. And I forget any CLI functions I don't use daily reaaallly fast.
- dotancohen 5y ago$ man foo Now tell me where the swipe-from-the-left and swipe-from-the-right and pull-down-from-the-top and long-press and double-tap and trippple-tap and pinch vertically and pinch horizontally and triple-finger tap for "modern" apps are documented?
- fsloth 5y agoI think we must be using different apps. For example - re-encoding a movie file. I'm 100% sure it's much faster for me to type "<windows> hand <enter>" to start Handbrake, click open, paste the path to the file to the file dialog, and click convert, than figure out how to use ffmpeg command line.
- dotancohen 5y agoOK, you got me at ffmpeg! By bash history and search history are littered with fighting that gem. But youtube-dl, the subject of this post, is another matter. Using it is a simple matter of `$ youtube-dl <url-to-video>`, the former which is bash-completed after two characters and the latter which is a paste. Surely that's quicker than any GUI.