I don’t really care. GUI or Cli, it don’t matter. But sometimes GUIs are far better even in Linux.
A real gripe I have with the Cli is when you install nVida drivers in Fedora from the terminal. Whether you are newb or a grizzled veteran of the Unix wars, you are going to enter, (or copy and paste for newbies), all the proper commands and things will go well until you get to the very end. When you are all done entering all the commands it says to reboot and you are looking at that blank blinking cursor, you would think you were done and ready to go.
But if you are in a hurry and missed the ‘fine print’, you probably missed the part where it says to wait for a while like 5 minutes or more BEFORE you can reboot. And no one knows how long for sure because the computer is recompiling your new kernel.
So there you sit, staring at your screen and a blank, blinking cursor without the slightest hint when the compile is done and wondering if it’s safe to reboot. Me, I go make a cuppa and go look out over the lake for a while. But it catches the beginners at least once.
That’s weird, other package systems have that solved by recompiling the kernel as a post-update hook that the update command waits for before exiting.
Seems like a bug that fedora’s packaging system doesn’t work like that.
I guess it’ll be a thing of the past when all systems use the new open source Nvidia driver, but there are still a lot of GPUs out there that aren’t supported by it.
I don’t really care. GUI or Cli, it don’t matter. But sometimes GUIs are far better even in Linux.
A real gripe I have with the Cli is when you install nVida drivers in Fedora from the terminal. Whether you are newb or a grizzled veteran of the Unix wars, you are going to enter, (or copy and paste for newbies), all the proper commands and things will go well until you get to the very end. When you are all done entering all the commands it says to reboot and you are looking at that blank blinking cursor, you would think you were done and ready to go.
But if you are in a hurry and missed the ‘fine print’, you probably missed the part where it says to wait for a while like 5 minutes or more BEFORE you can reboot. And no one knows how long for sure because the computer is recompiling your new kernel.
So there you sit, staring at your screen and a blank, blinking cursor without the slightest hint when the compile is done and wondering if it’s safe to reboot. Me, I go make a cuppa and go look out over the lake for a while. But it catches the beginners at least once.
Bring on the GUI and a bloody progress bar!
Yeah, that there was never a standardized call to the terminal to display a progress bar?
I type like a chimp throwing bananas at a keyboard. GUIs prevent the inevitable “command not found” oopsie.
That’s weird, other package systems have that solved by recompiling the kernel as a post-update hook that the update command waits for before exiting.
Seems like a bug that fedora’s packaging system doesn’t work like that.
I guess it’ll be a thing of the past when all systems use the new open source Nvidia driver, but there are still a lot of GPUs out there that aren’t supported by it.