• kamen@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    And that’s a great example where a GUI could be way better at showing you what’s what and preventing such errors.

    If you’re automating stuff, sure, scripting is the way to go, but for one-off stuff like this seeing more than text and maybe throwing in a confirmation dialogue can’t hurt - and the tool might still be using dd underneath.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      8 hours ago

      Quite true.
      It’s an argument I often have with the CLI only people, and have been having for years. Like ‘with this Cisco router I can do all kinds of shit with this super powerful CLI’. Yeah okay how do I forward a port? Well that takes 5 different commands…

      Or I just want to understand what options are available- a GUI does that far better than a CLI.