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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><title>(POST) Sufyaan's Webpage</title><link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../../images/favicon.webp"><link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="../../style.css"><link rel='stylesheet' href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" media="all"><meta charset="utf-8"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></head><body><a href="https://sufyaan.cyou/"><video autoplay loop muted playsinline class="homepage-title"><source src="../../images/sufyaan.webm" type="video/webm"/></video></a><hr/><p><a href="../../">sf.cu</a> > <a style="color:#bd93f9" href="../">Blog</a> > <a style="color:#bd93f9" href=".">Why I Use Terminal Apps</a></p><h1><i class="fa fa-terminal" aria-hidden="true"></i>Why I Use Terminal Apps</h1><p style="font-size:110%"><strong>Posted on 13 March 2023</strong></p><p><strong>Categories: </strong><a style="color:#ff79c6" href="../linux"><i class="fa fa-terminal" aria-hidden="true"></i>Linux</a> && <a style="color:#ff79c6" href="../software/"><i class="fa fa-laptop" aria-hidden="true"></i>Software</a></p><p><em>“Ah, yes. Graphical-user interface (GUI) apps. They are so comfortable and easy to use. You just click some buttons and get your computer to do what you want.”</em></p><p>That was what I thought before I learned how spectacular terminal applications are. <strong>I do not use a calendar or email GUI app. I use its terminal equivalent.</strong> Specifically, I use Calcurse for my calendar/todo, neomutt for my email, sxiv for my image viewing, mpv for my video playing and even Joplin (CLI) for my notes. I am still actively looking for more apps like terminal file managers (lf, ranger, mc) and terminal versions of GUI apps I use (Bitwarden?). What compelled me to switch?</p><h2><i class="fa fa-keyboard-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>The Right Tool For The Right Job</h2><p>Firstly, I realized that apps that allow me to use my keyboard and reduce mouse usage to as little as possible saved me a lot of time. By a lot of time, I don't mean a few minutes. I mean hours in the long run. Moving your hand to your mouse and clicking a button takes at least three seconds. Multiply that hundreds of times a day and 365 days an year. That leads to a lot of time wasted just moving your hand to your mouse.</p><h2><i class="fa fa-plane" aria-hidden="true"></i>Fast. Very Fast.</h2><p>The speed of terminal apps have helped me get a lot more productive. Getting myself to start working immediately helped me a lot. I use Neovim for my text editor, and whenever I need to write text, its much faster to press a shortcut to open a blank file in Neovim than to open a GUI equivalent. It is also much faster to press a shortcut than to open my applications menu and search for my calendar app and wait a few seconds for the bloated app to open up. Terminal apps are just more lightweight. As a result, they operate faster and save me more than just a few seconds.</p><h2><i class="fa fa-laptop" aria-hidden="true"></i><em>"Professionals Have Standards"</em></h2><p>CLI apps are more standardized. With a GUI, the procedure for solving an issue or using the application's functionality is similar to this:</p><ol><li>Click 'button1' on the top right.</li><li>Hover over 'dialogue2'</li><li>Click on 'button3'</li><li>Scroll down to 'setting4'</li><li>Change the value to False.</li><li>Click on Apply and OK.</li></ol><p>This is the sole reason that you see the terminal being used so much in Linux. It's easier to say “Open your terminal and type this” than to blabber a long list of instructions that will become redundant if the application in question decides to change their UI in an update.</p><h2><i class="fa fa-low-vision" aria-hidden="true"></i>Run Them on a Potato!</h2><p>Due to the lightweight nature of the command line, your tools can run on just about any computer. It does not matter if your computer has a Pentium processor or a 12th-generation i9. GUI tools have system requirements and if it is a robust tool with a fancy inte
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