<story><title>Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-gui-how-live-entirely-terminal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&amp;#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.&lt;p&gt;I see kids look at my two screen setup, which is on Windows 10, but basically a bunch of terminal windows open and think I&amp;#x27;m some sort of l337 h4x0r when really I&amp;#x27;m just an old coot who can&amp;#x27;t deal with change.&lt;p&gt;Even on Windows, I do everything in Powershell. Even things like installing Windows Updates.  (Get-WindowsUpdate)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>&amp;gt; These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&amp;#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.&lt;p&gt;As someone who is also old enough to have used all these ancient technologies, I&amp;#x27;m mystified as to why people today would want to go back to doing everything from a command line interface. Some things are really better done in GUIs. For example, why should I use diff if I can use kdiff3 instead?</text></comment>
<story><title>Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-gui-how-live-entirely-terminal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&amp;#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.&lt;p&gt;I see kids look at my two screen setup, which is on Windows 10, but basically a bunch of terminal windows open and think I&amp;#x27;m some sort of l337 h4x0r when really I&amp;#x27;m just an old coot who can&amp;#x27;t deal with change.&lt;p&gt;Even on Windows, I do everything in Powershell. Even things like installing Windows Updates.  (Get-WindowsUpdate)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red75prime</author><text>I tried to `curl -Method Post -Headers ...` my answer but it was too much work. Impressive.</text></comment>