• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    23 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.

    • kamen@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      IMO it’s important to recognise that both are valid in different scenarios. If you want to click through and change something that’s actually doable with a couple of clicks, that’s fine. If you want to do this through the CLI, it’s also fine - if you’re someone who’s done 10 deployments today and configured the same thing, it would be muscle memory even if it’s 5 commands.