XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: robin_listas@es.invalid

On 2025-12-13 13:27, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 10-12-2025, Marc Haber  a écrit :
>> Farley Flud  wrote:
>>> Because the "tools" are totally unnecessary.
>>
>> Who are you to tell others what they should be using and what they
>> find useful?
>
> He's a no life, so he needs to control others lives to make him feel
> alive. That doesn't work but it's all that drives him. You can't argue
> with him. Either you have fun or you ignore him.
>
>>> What "tools" can a DE offer that cannot be provided by
>>> various CLI or other software?
>>
>> I use KDE and I like for example that I can click on URLs in text
>> windows and then get a popup whether I want to open that one in the
>> browser. I like that I have a graphical frontend to choose networks
>> and bring up and down my various VPN links. And I like that most of my
>> software looks similar to each other and that I have some settings
>> that have the same effect on the majority of my programs.
>
> You aren't answering his question. He's asking if KDE provides a tool
> that grand you some control impossible to replicate with the CLI. Not if
> it's easier or nicer to do. Only if it's possible.
>
>>> Answer: None.
>>
>> That's your opinion. Mark it as such.
>
> It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Either a real one or a false one. If
> you can't come with an example, he's right. I really don't see examples
> of graphical tools which can't be done with CLI to manage your computer.
> Now, if you are asking him to draw a picture with the command line, it's
> a different story.
>
> Now, considering the easiest way to do stuff to manage your computer is
> another question. I've used successfully the command line to make
> changes on thousands of files which would have required me hours or days
> to take care with a graphical tool with. I have no example of stuff
> which would have been easier with a graphical tool. But for someone who
> doesn't know the CLI it wouldn't be so easy because he would need to
> learn the right commands first.

It is easier to edit scripts in the GUI desktop than it is in the
console. Renouncing to the GUI desktop is ridiculous.

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