Honest question to all the linuxFAGS

Honest question to all the linuxFAGS

How much time per day do you spend in terminal?

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On average day, I don't even open the terminal.

20-30 mins or less unless I'm setting something up or some shit

Running the compiler and opening files is all I use it for, mostly.

90 percent of time i open terminal it's to screenfetch -s

not gonna lie though, it's fun copying commands from google searches to install software. write in commands, press enter watch a bunch of hackery shit happen with letters and numbers then run software without having to restart computer
ever

i only open the terminal for admin tasks or doing batch processing. if it is a one off task and has a gui control i wont both with the terminal.

I have about 10 terminals open on average

But I can't tell you how much time I spend actually using them overall. But it's basically a question of how much I'm using my web browser, since that's the only graphical program I use regularly.

I dont even use GUI anymore.

To quickly traverse my fs and programming/git ( I usually use vim )
so it depends on your workflow. There's probably people that don't use X11 at all. So it depends on your place on the spectrum.

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A few hours.

I always keep them open mostly for ncmpcpp and ranger, but actually typing stuff just ~20 min on average

People like you need to die

please be bait

Karlie?

Fixing issues: 23 hours 55 minutes
Having fun: 4 minutes
Pretending everything is just fine and that Linux is superior to Windows by using screenfetch followed by taking a screenshot: 1 minute

>Fixing issues: 23 hours 55 minutes
>Having fun: 4 minutes
Sounds like my experience using windows

I spend half my time in the terminal, but that's mostly just vim
It would be maybe 5% if I used gvim instead

I have one open all the time

Not that much actually, mostly to run apt.
When i configure my computer after a fresh install then I use it a little more for configuring my LAMP stack and GCC config.

New install -> ~1 hour
Normal day -> 1 minute or something

>issues
should have installed a real distro

if you're constantly installing webservers why not use jenkins or something to automate it?

That's what happens when you install arch.

At work I have a terminal window with several tabs open at all times.
At home, when I'm not mucking about with my own servers, I open it occasionally to use ffmpeg to encode a webm for 4chains or use pass

I only really use the terminal to manage my nas server on most days, and I could just go to the living room and not use a terminal at all since it's also my htpc. I also use the dd command to write images to USB dives through terminal; I find I get more consistent results that way rather than using other utilities.

You shouldn't be afraid of the terminal. It's not as complicated as you think and if you take the time to get a rudimentary understanding various commands, you'll find that some things are actually easier to do via the terminal.

i'm usually doing something in a terminal, probably about 5 open at any one time

Depends on the day. Most days, only probably 10 minutes.
Other days when compiling code or experimenting with games or drivers or kernels, closer to 1-3 hours.

I should say though that I use Debian Sid though so I update literally every single day and often end up with problems because I like bleeding-edge but don't want Arch. pacman can suck my cock.

Almost all of it. I'm generally in a graphical environment but I keep several terminals open. I use python in interactive mode as a calculator occasionally. Mostly I have IRC and vim open in tmux for chatting and taking notes.

sounds like you're a fucking moron

What's wrong with pacman?
apt search = pacman -Ss
apt install = pacman -S
apt update && apt dist-upgrade = pacman - Syu

If it's too hard to remember, make aliases. I think you'll remember them if you use them daily, though.

Not him, but most Windows Problems(TM) are not the fault of the user. It's just a really awful OS.

your best distro

>That's what happens when you install *buntu.
Fixed that for you.

Before emacs: All the time

After emacs: Emacs is my terminal so technically never

>Compiling emacs with X11 support

>emacs

Hi, I'm a vimfag and I'd spend all day in the terminal if I could. Should I learn emacs?

10 minutes

gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html#features yes make the switch. it has terminal included on it along with more

>she's with me
>stop looking at her

MULTIPLE
FRAMES

Yeah sure

In order to grok emacs, you must understand its origins. Emacs was originally made as a macro set to escape the tyranny of a vim-like editor called teco, which started as a command language editor of the same name. Compared to ed, it was already more like modern vim in the scope and power of its macro language. In the 70s. Teco had a feature that let you store macros in registers named with control codes, like ^r. Richard Stallman altered visual teco to run those macros when you typed the macro name alone, and complexity grew from there. New editors were written based on teco with the Editor MACroS, that were programmable, until stallman copied gosmacs and created GNU emacs, the final emacs.

Emacs is the natural evolution of vim-like editors when you put them in the hands of old-school hackers instead of inexperienced script kiddies. All of these ridiculous plugins and add-ons you're currently seeing out to bring vim up to a more professional level are the beginnings of a new emacs. In the 2040s, there will be no vim, but its heritage will live on in a meta-editor. And emacs will finally have a good text editor.

I spend all of my free time programming in emacs in a terminal.

>2046
>complete acme implementation in emacs
>vim is ded and has been replaced with vagmacs, the world's first feminist text editor

90% of the time because most *nix shit I use is on a remote system through SSH, purely textual, or I just find it quicker to launch graphical applications from a terminal

i don't use the terminal. only to install software and to update/upgrade

>let's just call him stupid, that will reinforce my argument

Thank you. Good post

8 to 10 hours, multiple TTY sessions all the time.

10%, 50% in emacs and other in Firefox

DELETE THIS

Terminal is my most used app on macos, it's right next to launchpad icon.

This is my dock 99% of the time. I would remove Finder if it let me.

I have terminal opened all the time, but use it 5-20min per day I think.
I only use it for installing software, pinging and to do some complex file system operations that aren't trivial in graphical file manager.

software dev here. About 50/60% of my day

>the cancer that killed Sup Forums is right here gentlemen

You're a fucking retard.

>90 percent of time i open terminal it's to screenfetch -s

Linux users in a nutshell

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Being a winfag with a small dick is forever.

you're the reason people make fun of linux users

gui allows you to use linux with zero knowledge of the terminal

graphical file managers etc

you Linux people are just fucking weird, why do you even have windows/mac style gui's if you don't use them?

I exclusivly use VIM to write code. I also prefer it for directory navigation, management and my classes/job requires it. So like 50% of the time i'm on my laptop i'm in terminal.

wtf is wrong with you? put dock on autohide!

Because he's honest with us?

great fucking response m8, really bringing the quality here!

i do use them where appropriate
there's a lot of things which are better done in a terminal though

guis are good for single, basic, common tasks
the cli is good for more complex or less common tasks, or just doing a basic task faster, skipping the "getting to it" part of the gui

i thought pretty much the same as you did when first looking into linux, i did use DOS before windows, but i'd long since gotten used to guis
the reason i never kept using command.com/cmd.exe is because it's pretty much useless, the shell is shit, and most tasks are only implemented with gui-based tools
using a terminal in linux is an entirely different experience, the available shells are much nicer to use, and there's a cli tool to do pretty much everything

it makes no sense to use only the cli in on a desktop/laptop system, of course, but it also makes no sense to avoid the cli when it is still better to use it in many cases

Your first mistake is assuming how or why terminals are used.
How much time you spend in a terminal depends on how much time you spend on terminal based applications.

I use irssi and vim, someone spending the same time I do on irc and on editing text but does so using graphical software will spend less time in a terminal but the same amount of time chatting or writing.

How much time do windows users spend on their graphical desktop per day? The metric is meaningless.

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It is! lol. How would I take a picture without making it shown?

Around 20% of the time that I spend on my computer

This is post of the year. Spot on.

About 10 minutes. cmus, wget aptitude, nano

Need a GUI for the internet plus aesthetics

Tbh I use windows 10 but do most things from powershell/wsl these days