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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Retrograde   
   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   25 Nov 24 21:52:59   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 25 Nov 2024 13:34:25 GMT, Retrograde wrote:   
      
   > This comes down to not knowing most commands by heart,   
   > and often not even knowing the options and flags for the most basic of   
   > commands ...   
      
   Don’t need to. Type “man «cmd»” to see all the details of the options   
   available for any external command. I do this all the time.   
      
   > I’m glad any modern Linux distribution – I use Fedora KDE on all my   
   > computers – offers both paths for almost anything you could do on your   
   > computer, and unless I specifically opt to do so, I literally –   
   > literally literally – never have to touch the command line.   
      
   Also, running a command line through a GUI terminal emulator lets you take   
   advantage of cut/copy/paste between windows, which is a feature not   
   available on a pure-command-line system.   
      
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