It's like, when you install arch, you just feel like not bothering with installing the gui stuff, because you're so above pointing and clicking on things. If only they'd make a command line version of Metro Exodus. Metro Exodus on the command line would be so much more powerful. It's so lame with graphics. Don't get me started on editing my photos of the kids and fam. Just load that pic up on the command line as raw data. I'll just eliminate the red eye reading the machine code and editing it. GUIs are for weaklings. Just install arch without X or gnome or any of that stuff. Don't even get me started on the KDE wussies. Oh yeah, you want things to look all pretty on your screen to click on. Computers aren't pretty. They take commands. All you need are fingers and a keyboard. You can play tetris on the terminal, you know. No need for graphics. The linux devs just added graphics and a GUI for wussy users. Even invented that penguin thing to make it pretty and dumbed down.

I've started to feel dirty clicking on icons like some sort of peasant.

But it's actually better!

I know it's easy to think that it's about showing off, but honestly, the Linux graphical tools are much worse than the command line most of the time.

Installing software is much faster and more reliable using the command line than any graphical tool I've used.

What gives me real power is sudo.

Seems like a lot of Linux/programming memes basically just stem from a place of real noob insecurity. "I can't figure out how to quit vim!" "CLI is scary!" "Arch users say 'I use arch BTW'!" No offense to the noobs, it's just that, you know, people use this stuff for an actual reason. Yeah, vim requires you to be in normal mode and hit :q or even (gasp) :q! to quit sometimes, it's also a hyperflexible editor that lets you program super powerful functions, macros, do dirt-easy regex replacements, etc. Including binding Ctrl-Q to quit if you really struggle with that.

As a person who uses terminal almost all the time, this is sort of true. The real power comes with automations.

The nicest aspect, for me, is that I rarely need to do something just once. So while I sometimes prefer a GUI workflow for a simple one-off, if it's something I may end up repeating, then I'd rather have a command-line approach which can be chucked in a shell script, run by cron, or easily invoked over ssh on my phone.

But for highly interactive things (e.g., reading email), I'll stick to GUI solutions like a pleb.

A dirty linux admin here. Imagine you get ssh'd in nginx log folder and all you want to know are all the ips that have been beating againts certain URL in around last let's say last seven days and getting 429 most frequent first. In kittie script its like find -mtime -7 -name "*access*" -exec zgrep $some_damed_url {} \; | grep 429 | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | less depends on how y'r logs look (and I assume you've been managing them - that's where the zgrep comes from) should be run in tmux and could (should?) be written better 'n all - but my point is - do that for me in gui

(I'm waiting ⏲)

Sometimes I think about installing linux just to feel smug about it

I know it's faster and even easier for many things, but it's with great shame that I would rather mess with network interfaces via GUI than on command line. nmtui is a poor substitute.

The next level above that is installing a keyboard-driven window manager like i3. That’s where the dopamine really comes from.

Finally ditching Apple's "Music" player for MOC after watching Apple dismantle/bury basic features over the last decade.

It's not about power but about usability. Most GUI tools are worse software, somewhere. Example: Evolution Mail and Foliate (E-Reader) just stopped working for me, because they somehow get bubblewrap to want to open something in /root/.cache (which fails), which is just silly.

Rings true for Mac users too.

And windows, to some extent.

Also, the scale is logarithmic.