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minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·11 months agoLocking things behind terminal is not.
minus-squareAdanisi@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 months agoPeople 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.
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoit’s just very hard to make a usable ui, and extremely easy to make a great cli interface
minus-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoAre there programs that are locked behind a terminal?
minus-squaresoggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoAre 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
minus-squarebartolomeo@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoOh 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.
Locking things behind terminal is not.
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.
it’s just very hard to make a usable ui, and extremely easy to make a great cli interface
Are there programs that are locked behind a terminal?
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
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.