I know that GUI does not cover most of functionalities, for good reasons - being specialized to task (like files app), it provides more fine-grained experience.

Yet, I find that there are common commands which is terminal-only, or not faithfully implemented. for instance,

  • Commands like apt update/apt upgrade might be needed, as GUI may not allow enough interactions with it.
  • I heard some immutable distros require running commands for rollbacks.

These could cause some annoyance for those who want to avoid terminal unless necessary (including me). Hence, I bet there are terminal emulators which restricts what commands you could run, and above all, present them as buttons. This will make you recall the commonly used commands, and run them accordingly. Is there projects similar to what I describe? Thanks!

  • Joël de Bruijn
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    5 months ago

    Let’s say … like a ScratchJr but for terminal commands …

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      5 months ago

      You say that like it’s a bad thing, but, scratch exists. Further, you have to face that the "infantile " UI is trendy.

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        5 months ago

        Wasn’t sarcastic at all! I do think the visual coding style can be an inspiration for cli also.