Basic Linux Stuff
Commandline: why???
Unix/Linux and HPC experts always use the commandline — why?
- GUI vs Command Line
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- Harder to the trivial things, but easier to do everything else.
- Not everything has a GUI!
- Vastly more powerful and flexible than any (practical) GUI
- . . . and can do many things that no GUI can (next page).
- Remote and Shared Systems
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- Remote systems not usually available via GUI
- Orders of magnitude less resource-hungry than GUI
- Imagine 100 instances of Aero, Aqua, GNOME/KDE running on
Man2's login node. . .