Post B2fowiwOhgln239Tbk by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
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 (DIR) Post #B2fouz81Y1tkeplEjg by governa@fosstodon.org
       2026-01-26T05:32:24Z
       
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       Not the #Linux You Remember: 16 Every Day Tasks That No Longer Need the Terminalhttps://itsfoss.com/no-longer-need-terminal/
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fov0K76ZAAMcQPDc by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2026-01-26T10:10:55.422019Z
       
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       @governa >Most of the tasks are done faster and easier in GNU bash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fowiwOhgln239Tbk by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2026-01-26T10:11:16.063068Z
       
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       @governa >Almost all of the tasks have nothing to do with Linux.>Most of the tasks are done faster and easier in GNU bash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fp0L29X2TE2lZEg4 by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2026-01-26T10:11:43.486149Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki @governa >itsfoss.com>fosstodon.orgさすが
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fuO7lN1UeXbdsYCm by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
       2026-01-26T11:12:13Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki It is so annoying that they say "Linux" and then proceed to talk about everything but linux.They say "terminal" but really mean a shell (like GNU Bash).
       
 (DIR) Post #B2g4KfLtCHUUADwxaS by argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
       2026-01-26T06:18:31Z
       
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       @governa Linux has certainly come a long way.I wonder how many of these also work on FreeBSD/GhostBSD?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2g4KgP7HlfNQWT3Fw by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
       2026-01-26T13:03:14Z
       
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       @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @governa@fosstodon.orgArguably, having to use a GUI tool for audio routing is not a sign of user-friendliness, but rather of how unnecessarily complicated the audio stack has become.Redirecting first pair of audio channels to different outputs of your audio interface is two lines in .asoundrc, but despite not being new to this, nor not being particularly dumb, I've found no way to achieve this with PipeWire without having to rely on a GUI tool — and I'm not sure that putting objects on the grid and using mouse to connect them is easier to explain to a newcomer than making them copy a few lines from a forum post and adjust them to their needs.GUI tools are only good up to a certain threshold of facilitating the most common use cases. Having saner defaults, requiring no configuration at all is preferable to having a GUI tool — for the rest, there are configuration files and arcane terminal incantations — that's the way things are or at least used to be in Mac OS X.In Linux however a lot of things are over-complicated, borrowing ideas from here and there without of having a clear vision, then they have GUI configuration tools for the sake of them being GUI, instead of being well designed — which would allow for having both a nicer GUI and a more straightforward way to do this in terminal.Linux has certainly come a long way, but in some parts I'm not sure it was in the right direction 😏Instead of having tools so simple that you could "grasp" how they work, you have to do it this way because it's done this way — and you have no idea why, even if you want to spend time on figuring out, things often do not make any sense, just like in Windows.There are exceptions of course, such as Bluetooth stack: bluetoothctl, scan on, connect …, pair — for input devices you only have to do this once and forget about it entirely, they just keep working. Can this be further improved having a GUI? I'm not even sure! Unlike PulseAudio/PipeWire — BlueZ certainly deserves a praise!