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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)

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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'd love supported GUI apps for pacman and systemd. I know there are GUI's out there for them, but they are not supported by the main project, so they don't count.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think a good GUI for systemd will be super useful even for people comfortable with command line.

Sometimes you need an overview of what is running on the system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a TUI called sysz for systemd stuff, but I haven't found a true GUI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/KDE/systemdgenie

https://github.com/hardpixel/systemd-manager

https://cockpit-project.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

TIL! thanks!

[–] sparr 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why don't they count? The systemd interface has been stable for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They don't count for me, because I can't get support from the main project if it has a bug.

[–] sparr 0 points 5 months ago

You can't get support from lemmy.linuxuserspace.show or any other website if there's a bug in your web browser. You can't get support from gmail or protonmail or any other mail provider if there's a bug in your email client. It's awful how much people have come to assume that clients and servers must and always come from the same provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

https://github.com/KDE/systemdgenie

https://github.com/hardpixel/systemd-manager

https://cockpit-project.org/

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Systemd's problems won't be solved with a GUI. Now that lennart's gone to Microsoft we can hope they upgrade in rhel10 or 11 to upstart or sysv.