• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    3 days 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.

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      1 day ago

      Yep, when posting how to do something, between ‘select an example and paste to answer’ or ‘series of screenshots to illustrate a gui way’, the text copy/paste wins on laziness of answer.

      Besides, there’s a decent chance that a person has to solve it for some arbitrarily large number of systems, and speaking in CLI is a vocabulary that can more trivially be made headless across a bunch of systems.

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      3 days 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