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Why aren't there more admin level graphical tools available for Linux? Or if there are, what are they? (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jarredpickles87 to c/[email protected]

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I understand the usefulness of the terminal and how universal it is for troubleshooting across distros. But can't there be a way to make a nice graphical tool for the various admin level tasks that need to be performed?

Edit: Thank you to the outpouring of feedback on this. It has greatly opened my eyes to how much I don't know about. I did see a couple suggestions though, so I'll be sure to check them out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think its because a lot of this stuff is faster to do through command line. And people developing GUI tools are ones that are already good at CLI so they might not understand why a graphical tool might be needed and then ones that do, start learning CLI to program a tool and on the way might realize it's just easier to console. Kinda where I'm at. Plus if there are many of the same tool it might vary in GUI and when giving someone instructions it's easier to just say the command to type than to cover every possible variation of GUI environment. That's my take on this.

[–] jarredpickles87 2 points 1 year ago

on the way might realize it's just easier to console. Kinda where I'm at.

Me too. Discovering lots of good tools are CLI, so just getting familiar with that instead.