Dad walks in

>dad walks in
>he sees terminal window open
>"watcha doin son?"

How do you respond?

I tell him what's I do, obviously

You see, in the world outside of Sup Forums, the terminal is just a tool to perform various actions: installing software, sorting my pictures, searching for a specific file, etc.

How do you explain to someone that you prefer typing things in a terminal over using a GUI without sounding like a complete neckbeard?

what are you implying OP?

Why don't you just keep your room locked?

Uh nothing I guess I did word the OP kinda weirdly though

"kinda"
you made it sound as if you are operating a darknet site for pizza, or the silk road

No definitely not I was just referring to the terminal itself and how it is strange looking for normies. Sorry it wasn't clear.

I have to do this often.
Just say you're quicker and more efficent using a keyboard. CLI can conserve system resources while performing daily tasks: music, torrenting, text manipulation, web browsing, instant messaging, file management, etc.
Kind of hard not to sound like a neckbeard when you get into the technical details of why you prefer the terminal to GUI, but don't purity spiral and/or look down upon plebs from your ivory tower as you make your point. Just say it's a "different folks, different strokes" thing.

If someone ask me, I say it's faster that any alternative. I would probably take an example, like resizing a picture. There is plenty of website with arbitrary size limit for picture upload. In cli, it's one line. In GUI, I have to open an image editor, find where in the menu I can resize the picture, and save the image.

But there are two rules to not sounding like a neckbeard:
1. I don't take an hour each day to explain why the cli is a superior tool to these who don't care. It's a tool I use like any other, I won't speak of it unless it's the subject.
2. It may be difficult to believe, but the use of cli is completely unrelated to social skills.

the obvious, tell papa that you are the hacker Sup Forums

>person walks by
>sees screenfulls of terminals scrolling by
>"wow user you must be a super leet hacker!"
>literally all compiler errors from forgetting a semicolon or some shit

or move out????????

OP still lives with mummy

Try doing a fucking wildcard with a GUI

"working" on a project

Sauce?

The question is, what kind of activities do you do on the terminal that can embarrass you ?
It's not like you're watching ascii-art porn, right ? r-right ?

I do this all the time to pretend I'm working on something.

"Hacking the FBI" or whatever response i come up with at the moment.

If I'm doing something not to be proud of or don't want to explain my reasons, I can begin rambling into highly detail, highly technical speech, so he, (or whoever) will flee. It does work. Everytime.

so many dubs itt

"I'm typing text, so I don't really see a point in anything else that can distract me."
If I'm doing something more complicated:
"It's faster and I have to move my hands less."

This is exactly what not to do

Heck yeah I do

Why though? I just what him to leave me alone.

If it's a girl, you just say "hacking the pentagon" or whatever, and smile. She will giggle and most importantly, not ask further.

>using my computer

>She will giggle and most importantly, not ask further.
(X) Doubt

Adults communicate with language, infants point and click

Just say you're trying something interesting.

That sounds pretty neckbeardy to me dude.

"nothing"

Just mention a couple examples of tasks that are comfier in the terminal
>I'm using a script to back my shit up to an external HDD, it's easier than selecting folders in a gui
>I'm using a text interface to edit text, makes sense, right?
>I'm updating my OS and every program, sure beats getting update notifications every hour and waiting 20 minutes for your PC to shut down

>dad finds the tranny pills

gui text editors have some really good features tho. like the possibility to go immediately to a specific letter on a line instead of holding the arrow key for a minute to get there. there might be a shortcut key for that in some program for it but i have never found it so its easier to just use something like geany or notepad++ if on windows.

writing another fucking twitter bot
>ok nice i'm going to the store, do you want an-
it's about generating maps of this fantasy land i invented
>well as i said i am going to th
and it uses this smart thing i worked on ALL NIGHT to render the heightmaps in a readable way
>ok im gonna go
but it still doesn't look hand drawn so im wondering if i should do that as a filter or actually while drawing
>bye
i've tried a couple of both and i'm not sure, it's not right, maybe if i combi

I mean, this is easy in vim and emacs

I tell my dad what I'm doing.
If the command window is idle I reply "Nothing at the moment."
If the command window is doing something (e.g. copying files) I reply "Copying files."
If I honestly have no idea what the fuck I'm doing but I'm doing something anyway (happens more often than you'd think) I reply "Not sure what I'm doing."

How is "watcha doin son" even a challenging question?
The only way you'd fail it is if you're so much of a failure that you can't output words at your father.

"I prefer using a terminal to using a GUI."

>I'm updating my OS and every program
Do this in one window for every program and your 'X failed' messages get buried, later causing you confusion until you realise that one of your tools or dependencies is still an older version.

"Just installing a new hard drive in to the cpu's mainframe"
He'd get confused even if he understood.

>blah blah blah I wanna feel like a leet hacker

>No definitely not I was just referring to the terminal itself and how it is strange looking for normies.
Nigga please. Normalfags get confused and enraged about everything, it's the default normalfag reaction. Normalfags are even confused and enraged by other normalfags.

The instant you get a Typical Normalfag Response (TNR) you should completely flush your Giving A Shit Cache.

If you're watching Ascii art porn you reply "Looking at ascii porn"
It's only shameful if you feel shame. Try not feeling shame.

Home and end keys
or just A/I in vim or Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E in emacs

Not him, but that exact dialogue is confirmed to be working as long it's not just a random girl you just met.
(and even then it might work if you're good looking enough)

>dad took the tranny pills

>dad forced me to took tranny pills

>the possibility to go immediately to a specific letter on a line instead of holding the arrow key for a minute to get there
/\s jumps to the the next word starting with in the current line in vim. Alternatively, you can just mash w to jump a word until you get there.

>Do this in one window for every program and your 'X failed' messages get buried, later causing you confusion until you realise that one of your tools or dependencies is still an older version.
Never happened during 3 years of using debian.

Updating Arch.

nothing to hide

>GASC v90.01: TNR was detected. Flush cache? (Y/n)

My father is a linux user and uses the terminal. What do you want, OP?

How fat is your father?

updating

Typing is faster

>implying nothing to find

wtf that's how it normally goes if you're not a total sperg

imagine being this insecure about routine computer use
if you've reached a point that you're defending such a mundane thing to a random normie who doesn't give a fuck about computers to begin with then you already crossed the "neckbeard" line ages ago
and nobody cares, neither should you, this kind of trivial whining is why nerds get curbstomped in the first place

Does he browse Sup Forums?
>captcha related

"I am installing Gentoo"

"Daddy."

I want to live without mommy

'Hacking the Gibson'

not everything uses a gui

>WORKING ON THE COMPUTER!

Why do I have to make every moment of my life autistic?

>what are you doing?
>work stuff
>oh, alright

It's happened before, he seems interested in it but doesn't care enough to learn and I don't care enough to teach him.

Apathy seems to be genetic.

"Some things are just easier and faster to do with typing than going through multiple windows."

If that's too much for them to grasp then they probably aren't someone I interact with enough for their disagreement to matter to me.

As I've taken to call it, Console/Terminal.

...

I'd pretty pissed off too if my child was condescending and had a kernel panic displayed on his monitor.

"Nothing much, just compiling my kernel to test out the changes I just made"

i ask him why he never visits me ;_;

Not enough rice in your terminal.

>dad tries to walk in
>gets caught by the motion detectors
>fails iris scan
>almost gets shot until the face detection clears him

He's developed a beer belly in the last 10 years.
no

"I'm taking over a TV network."

I just say: "I can type a command faster than I could click through a GUI" and even normies understand

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.
“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”
Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master's hand.
“I don't understand you!” said the programmer.
Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.
“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.
Master Foo pointed at the programmer's head. Then he pointed at a rock.
“Why can't you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.
Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.
As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.
At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment.

>Go away, Dad! Can't you see I'm hacking the U.S. elections?

>"it's just a way to click buttons without a mouse"

seriously it works for my users

cyka blyat!

I'm doing what he didn't. I'm being better.

> without sounding like a complete neckbeard?
I don't live/work with normies.

wow so you're telling me they'll have a copy of my open source linux kernel that's cached..........

huh. so secret.

Fuck off dad i just hacked the nasa mainframe for those sweet sweet yithian top secret documents. Now please get out and get me some tendies

No, it's literary a console terminal.
Learn your history retard

you can go to a line with :number
you can search with /text and hit n to find the next occurrence
on a single line, you can search for characters with f and find the next occurrence with ;
both can go backwards instead of forwards using shift+/ which becomes ? or shift+f which becomes F.

But i don't live at my parents, op.

denoudaden

tfw too brainlet to remember all this without writing it on a paper and looking up every time when im editing configs. took me years to remember that / is the search command on vi and before that i only knew about :qw and :q! and i/esc and fucked up many config files by forgetting to change the mode.

Sys admins exist, you know?

>dad
Left the family when I was 9

9 months

just tell them that unix sucks

give the laptop back nigger

that's exactly what a neckbeard would say

>nigger
I know him tho you prejudice illiterate cuck bitch

>How do you respond?
Tell him what I am doing (if it something normal).

My dad has used "the terminal" for longer that I am alive, he was on Free BSD before I was born.

You don't have to do that if your dad has been running Free BSD for longer then you are alive and does a lot of stuff in the terminal himself.

>he doesn't deny it
give it back jamal, fun's over

oh yeah?
my dad is ken thompson

>oh yeah?
Yes.

>my dad is ken thompson
Nice for you.
My dad is just working as a higher up IT guy at a semi conductor company.

I think it was pretty obvious by the statement that I do know my father that I'm not a nigger. Obviously you're a brainlet
Hah, sad for you

>dad walks in
>he sees terminal window open
>"watcha doin son?"
>nothing much dad
>dad asks me why my thinkpad is running what seems to be windows 95 and why do I always have a terminal window open
>I tell him just for novelty
>he tells me thats cool and tells me to come down for dinner as the fasmily dog yaps at him for not coming down to dinner