PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by deltaonefour on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:19AM (#27949351)

The CLI I would argue sucks. Compared with powershell? Powershell is better designed.

But that's besides the point. CLIs in itself are harder to use than GUI and the entire FOSS ecosystem biases itself towards CLI. So that in itself is a marker for inferior usability.

With training a CLI can be made superior in many aspects to a GUI. But it takes training and mostly only people in IT are willing to go through this training. Overall from a common users' standpoint, GUIs are superior.

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Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by majkinetor on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:37AM (#27949465)

We can have both tho. What stops you to use funky GUI to tidy up things then have 'export to powershell' command ?

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Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by deltaonefour on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:12AM (#27949714)

Yeah but overall in windows or OSX you can use the entire OS without touching the command line. Not so for linux. Most linux users are using both a GUI and a shell window under the GUI. That's the point.

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