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Food for thought: why do people still use consoles inspite of all the progress made so far? If you answer is inertia, think again.

bodge5000 4y ago
If you mean why do devs still use the terminal over GUI programs, I'd say a big reason why is because its kind of like its own universal GUI. Take git for example. If I use VSCode and you use Kraken for example, and you have a problem with git and ask for my help with it, depending on the complexity of the problem I might not be able to figure out how Kraken works or even what the issue is. We could fix that by settling on one GUI git program, but you say we should settle on Kraken and I say we settle on VSCode. The terminal meanwhile is the default choice, because its on every machine by default and is compatible with any other tool you use.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Nah, it is pretty much inertia. You can see it whenever PowerShell comes up, with all its vast improvements over the bash + coreutils ways of doing things, and people are still all "well it sucks because it doesn't work exactly the way I'm used to". Frankly, software developers gave up on GUI in the early 2000s despite huge discoverability and UX advancements because the money was suddenly in shoving ads down people's throats via the web. Fortunately for them, when users are your product instead of your customer UX is relatively unimportant.
- DriftRegion 4y ago
  $500 to AnIdiotOnTheNet to revive the GUI!
dvh 4y ago
- It's fast, always was fast, I hate waiting for computer to do what should be instant - copy paste always works, good luck selecting text from button or menu of a gui app - font and colors same everywhere - if for some reason GUI is temporarily not working it is not downgrade for me - takes less resources, leaves more for actual work
- zajio1am 4y ago
  - fast and transparent network access through SSH - strangely, i feel that TUI is more aesthetically pleasing that GUI, perhaps related to uniformity of monospace text and everything fitting to grid.

bodge5000 4y ago

If you mean why do devs still use the terminal over GUI programs, I'd say a big reason why is because its kind of like its own universal GUI. Take git for example. If I use VSCode and you use Kraken for example, and you have a problem with git and ask for my help with it, depending on the complexity of the problem I might not be able to figure out how Kraken works or even what the issue is. We could fix that by settling on one GUI git program, but you say we should settle on Kraken and I say we settle on VSCode. The terminal meanwhile is the default choice, because its on every machine by default and is compatible with any other tool you use.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago

Nah, it is pretty much inertia. You can see it whenever PowerShell comes up, with all its vast improvements over the bash + coreutils ways of doing things, and people are still all "well it sucks because it doesn't work exactly the way I'm used to". Frankly, software developers gave up on GUI in the early 2000s despite huge discoverability and UX advancements because the money was suddenly in shoving ads down people's throats via the web. Fortunately for them, when users are your product instead of your customer UX is relatively unimportant.

DriftRegion 4y ago
$500 to AnIdiotOnTheNet to revive the GUI!

dvh 4y ago

- It's fast, always was fast, I hate waiting for computer to do what should be instant - copy paste always works, good luck selecting text from button or menu of a gui app - font and colors same everywhere - if for some reason GUI is temporarily not working it is not downgrade for me - takes less resources, leaves more for actual work

zajio1am 4y ago
- fast and transparent network access through SSH - strangely, i feel that TUI is more aesthetically pleasing that GUI, perhaps related to uniformity of monospace text and everything fitting to grid.