• Adanisi@lemmy.zip
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        11 months ago

        People are free to write a GUI for it, assuming it’s free software. And you are free to not use a terminal and use any GUI alternatives.

        I mean, locking things behind a GUI definitely isn’t freedom. GUIs are very limited compared to most terminal interfaces.

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          11 months ago

          it’s just very hard to make a usable ui, and extremely easy to make a great cli interface

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          11 months ago

          Are you kidding? There are literally hundreds of commands in the terminal which don’t have a symmetrical GUI application baked into the OS.

          Why would you create a whole GUI for a simple command such as scp and tail. Literally half of Linux is solely in the terminal

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            Oh ok. I guess we have a different definition of what “locked” means. One could definitely make a GUI for simple commands. Who knows, maybe some students somewhere already have.