Modern uses for the terminal other than scripting?

ls
cd..
cd ..
Etc.

>>61532336
>cd code

neofetch for muh threads

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>>61532365

>>61532309
My text editor runs in a terminal. I use that quite a lot.

The repls I use run in a terminal (python, lua).

I like to use ranger, a console-based file manager, for browsing projects. It has a pretty convenient text preview. I also like tig for this sort of thing.

I use it for updating my system. (Though you might consider that some form of scripting.)

And of course, there are all kinds of small utilities that don't have gui versions, at least on Linux.

>>61532309
Other than scripting would be...
EVERYTHING EXCEPT SCRIPTING.
Seriously, you can do whatever you want with a terminal

operating the system

>>61532309
starting dwarf fortress

making a gf

sl

>>61533337

this guy gets it

>>61532309
Is this truly the state of modern /g/?

RUN DOS RUN

I use it for neovim, and I use neovim for terminal.

(servers, package management, git, pretty much everything besides web browsing and gaming)

cowsay

looking cool on the internet
get a riced up music player or something.

>>61532309
*hacks you*

links

i like this bait

Grep and find, which work so much faster on unindexed volumes than the default search options in Windows, OSX and Ubuntu.

i feel safe in my own body after reading the contents of this thread

>>61532309
I want a terminal that mimics a tektronix display

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1500872143605.webm

>>61532309
Fixing OSes that are broken out of the box, like most GNU/Linux distributions.

running programs which don't have or need a GUI
compilers, text editors, media encoders, music players, batch processing tools, system information and monitoring tools, etc, etc
really, i run as much if not more individual programs in the terminal than graphically

>>61533805
xterm can emulate a tektronix display

Haxoring

>>61533922
how so?

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>>61533951

>>61533967
oh sweet

>>61533967
post weebm I need to see this

>>61533990
i don't have any tektronix graphics scripts on hand to show off
also, they won't look fancy, as xterm doesn't try to emulate the look of the original storage tube (glowing green beam)
that and you'd need to limit the speed of drawing a lot to even see anything but the final image, the reason >>61533805 draws so slow is because it's being handed drawing commands over a slow serial link

>>61534018
in other words it emulates it but doesn't really

I really shouldn't have expected anything less from linux

>>61534458
it emulates it so you can run tektronix programs and see their output, but it doesn't simulate a storage tube
just like most "regular" VTxxx terminal emulators don't simulate a monochrome CRT's appearance

>>61532309
E V E R Y T H I N G

>>61532433
Luke ?

>>61532404
>cd..
This never fails to make my sides burst.

>>61534502
Then it really doesn't emulate what I want whatsoever

>>61534554
ok then

Midnight Commander and Ranger are comfy as fuck file managers. When you just quickly want to look for your e-mail Alpine is great, also Newsbeuter for feeds.

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>>61532309
I use it for package management because it's quicker than using GUI frontends since I have a pretty good grasp on using the command line version. I use it for CMus which is a really good CLI music player because everything else is clunky with too many buttons and bunch of wasted space in the UI. I also edit files using nano, and for remote connections to other machines on my LAN I use SSH. I use SSH not only for file transfer like backups and pictures but also for compiling large programs on my main PC when I'm doing work in my office on my laptop, because fuck leaving my comfy chair and fuck compiling big programs on a 2GHz dual core laptop. The terminal is also a great fallback tool to help you fix stuff if something breaks or isn't responding, like when I test software and it freezes and I can't use graphical window buttons to kill it.

>>61533662
Yes. /g/ is dying.

everything

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>>61535295

>>61535304
WM?

>>61533329
C-can it really do that?

>>61535334
herbstluft

>>61535343
$ make gf

>>61535304
Ah, a ricer in his natural habitat. Note how more than 3/4ths of the screen are wasted on music player, signifying his lack of actual lack of productivity and work to be done.

>>61535404
Nothing wrong with some rice.

>>61535404
>le epic productivity meme
what if you're just a normie who likes actually being able to change your system. There's not many of us, but we exist.

>>61535425
Fair enough.

>>61535425
kneck yourself normie

>>61532404
Gets me every time

>>61535440
real talk

i think that linux shills miss the major mark for normies which is aesthetics, and shill programming and low level customizability too hard

linux is the true weaboo OS, but none of them realize it.

>>61532309
>uses for the terminal other than scripting
Terminals have nothing to do with scripting.

>>61532309

Embrace the Kloss, be like one.

>>61535244

I have always had so many problems with GUI frontends for packages I don't even bother to try them anymore. CLI installs just werk and save a lot of time.

>>61532309
Are you from /v/ or something?

Package management, spicy screenfetches, IRC, SSH, quick editing of a config file, quick moving, copying, renaming files and dirs, imaging drives, converting weird audio files to mp3, downloading camwhore live streams in real time, quick opening of said streams with mpv.