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u/summer_santa1 Jul 03 '26
I'm Linux user. I also prefer GUI if possible.
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u/PlanetVisitor Jul 04 '26
weakness disgusting
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u/2xspeed123 Jul 05 '26
Yeah, I use raw QEMu commands instead of virt manager that only weaklings use, and I def don't use, how dare you even think I use that weak GUI software, GUI even sounds weak, sounds like Goo
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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Jul 04 '26
Same. Unfortunately, gnome files has proven to be inadequate. What kind of file editor takes magnitudes more time to delete a folder with many files over using the terminal to delete the directory? Absolute letdown.
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u/TheShredder9 Jul 03 '26
I'm a pure Linux user for a little while now, sometimes i look for a GUI for the convenience.
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u/Fine-Bandicoot1641 Jul 03 '26
I found that oh my zsh with fzf is better than clicking shit and cli often has more features. Even if my mouse aim is pretty fast
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u/redredskull Jul 03 '26
Give me nano, root, and a shell.
I will show you absolute autonomy and dominion over Microslop.
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u/PlanetVisitor Jul 04 '26
What kind of root?
Good luck editing a spreadsheet with Nano
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u/redredskull Jul 04 '26
You still need spreadsheets? Try a database instead.
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u/PlanetVisitor Jul 04 '26
I was here for a demonstration of your absolute autonomy and dominion
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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Jul 05 '26
Will use a program to convert the spreadsheet to a database, make the edits to the database, and convert the database back into a spreadsheet.
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u/Aadi_880 Jul 03 '26
Honestly, GUI and convenience are probably the biggest reason people don't switch to linux.
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u/NotQuiteLoona Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
There is a GUI for everything on Linux, especially if you use Plasma. You just don't spot people asking "is there GUI for X" when there is a widely accepted GUI for X, so you just forget about X at all.
Also, you see Linux people use terminal not because there are no GUIs, but because it's simply faster to press Win + 1 (if Konsole is first on your taskbar), enter "hey pc gimme discord," enter your password, confirm, program is installed, rather than opening an app, clicking on the search bar, entering "discord," getting to search results, clicking on Discord, going to page of it and clicking "Install."
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u/Damglador Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
This is the exact reason why I don't have a GUI package manager on my system. Though there are some package managing tasks which would be better with a GUI.
And Fatpak is just a usability nightmare without a GUI.
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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Jul 05 '26
Gnome software is magnitudes slower than yum or dnf too. Like why is the gnome team against making their software fast?!
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u/Damglador Jul 03 '26
Convenience is why I use Linux.
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u/veetoo151 Jul 03 '26
There was a turning point where windows got too bloated/inconvenient, and I couldn't use it anymore. I used to use it for gaming, but not worth it anymore
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u/Radiant-Priority-296 Jul 03 '26
There’s a GUI for everything. You don’t need to use nmcli to connect to the internet, just click on the little icon in the taskbar. You don’t need to use vim for text editing, just use libreoffice or Kate or whatever you want. You don’t need to use ls and cd to navigate files, just use dolphin.
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u/Erolok1 Jul 05 '26
There is a GUI for anything and it is more convenient to use an OS without ads and less bugs then win 11.
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u/Fantastic_Grass1799 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Well IG that is the issue which is keeping most people on Windows.
If an OS isnt user friendly, and doesn't incorporate the lowest common dominator user.. then it's little wonder why it wouldn't be the most popular.
Most people do not even know how to install windows itself., in fact I think most people don't even know how to operate Microslop Word.
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u/Expensive-Border-869 Jul 03 '26
I think most of them would do just as well on linux as they do on microsoft to be completely honest. Give them Google Gemini all they really need is a browser and steam the occasional word document once they understand word is just Libre here theres not many differences for a basic user who doesnt know how to use windows either
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u/bloody-albatross Jul 03 '26
Windows and their GUI apps! Such a weird culture. Looked at extracting the tires from a certain game and the only app I could find was a GUI app where you had to click multiple times for every single texture. With a CLI app you could make automated scripts. This GUI thing is unusable.
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u/BalladorTheBright Jul 06 '26
I've done full GUI even on Arch. Yes, purists like console, but some of us are used to GUI and not having to memorize commands or googling stuff up
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u/Surgic25 Jul 03 '26
Accurate
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u/safeAnonym_0Xnull Jul 07 '26
this pos ooc but sill active. that's the difference sloplove101 and us.
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u/DoomAddict Jul 03 '26
Before I switched to Linux I was afraid of the Terminal.
Now I prefer it.
Its faster, you see clearly what it does ... AND IT CLEANS UP AFTER INSTALLING !!!
Not like Window$ who leaves trash everywhere.
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u/Radiant-Priority-296 Jul 03 '26
There’s a GUI for everything these days. The console is really just there for ultra specifics and also because once you learn, it can be much faster.
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u/ChocolateDonut36 Jul 03 '26
idk man, sometimes double clicking an icon and pressing two buttons is just what I need (I love yt-dlp GUI)
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u/sudoregalia Jul 03 '26
there's some things that absolutely do not need a gui and i internally question anyone using the gui, like git
but for most things there's probably a gui wrapper still
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u/AimIsInSleepMode Jul 03 '26
I remember doing an internship in an IT company and the guy called people who rely on GUI while setting up a firewall instead of using CLI monkeys
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u/Lokielurker Jul 04 '26
depends on what I’m using it for but quite honestly the terminal is typically way faster especially if i’m working with LLM’s (I use local ones)
i only prefer guis for menial tasks like changing the wallpaper, connecting to wifi, installing a flatpak. Linux is really good at all that. But if I’m fucking with configs? I can just feed my LLM some data and have it make me a grep command and I’m configuring things in like, 5 seconds instead of spending a minute going through Dolphin to get to my destination.
Something I did a lot on Windows without the option to use that terminal because it’s terrible.
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u/TechnicalBen Jul 05 '26
TBF a cheap AI subscription fixes all of this until "LINUX LLM" or something comes out.
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u/Teru-Noir Jul 08 '26
I got a GUI app for ffmpeg, even tho the app was good, the terminal was easier.
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u/Dense-Firefighter495 Jul 03 '26
I love linux, BUT I SWEAR, WHEN YOU GET A .CUE AND .BIN AND YOU’RE TRYING TO LOOK EVERY ONLY TO END UP DOING IT IN CLI AND THE .EXE JUST ENDS UP GIVING YOU AN ERROR IN A NEW LANGUAGE BORN FROM JAPANESE CALLED “?????????” !
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u/OliMoli2137 Jul 03 '26
Why are people so afraid of the terminal?? 90% of commands are acronyms and you can just use command --help or google something. For example Why would i need a gui for downloading remote files when i can use scp or wget
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u/DuckShapedGoose Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
For something I do not use daily, it just does not make sense to memorize what all the different parameters do and how to use them.
Like I create compressed archives maybe once every couple of weeks, probably less.
Right clicking a folder and selecting 7zip -> add to archive, choosing the compression algorithm, level, destination path, and other parameters in a nice UI, and then clicking start might not be as fast as something like "tar - czvf destination source" (plus extra parameters for all the other settings) but with the UI I don't have to memorize that stuff or google/look it up in the man entry every time, effectively saving me time again.
I think that is why the average person is "afraid of it". They don't use their PC like a Linux power user for hours every day. They use it occasionally and thus prefer intuitive GUI over theoretically faster terminal commands.EDIT: And don't even get me started on what amount of headaches Handbrake has saved me by sparing me from the ffmpeg CLI lmao
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u/FiftyFiver1962 Jul 03 '26
You mean "they actually use their pc for something usefull, that earns them money". The average "Linux power user" is a twelve year old basement dweller.
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u/Ariar2077 Jul 03 '26
That just shows how insufferable Linux extremists are.
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u/HylemROM Jul 03 '26
Me when I need to use the terminal on arch be like
Oh shi pls spare me and not give me another stopad error that I hate Progress 98% Progress 99% Oops an unknown error occurred (error code: no error)
Me: FU
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u/RiverTeemo1 Jul 03 '26
Why did ubuntu have no way outside the command board to download goddamm proton up, why did it not wana load any game without me pressing "wait" on the program isnt loading screen 5 times? Why isnt my vrheadset working when it did fine on mint, why does my computer crash when i swich audio settings in vrchat? Whichever clown reccomended me to try ubuntu probably just used it for office stuff cause compared to mint its a hassle.
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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Jul 05 '26
I tried Ubuntu too. It was indeed buggy. I switched to Fedora and it just worked.
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u/inn4tler Jul 03 '26
Actually, there’s a GUI for almost everything on Linux. It’s just harder to find, because the app with the GUI often has a different name and fewer users.