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Yeah I totally agree. But still, I feel like there are much more terrible GUI programs out there than terrible CLI programs. The only truly awful CLIs I can think of is that tool for managing MegaRAID controllers that has the weird abbreviations everywhere, and shell interfaces to GUI-first bloatware like Dconf that were probably added as an afterthought. I think with CLI there's only so many things that the developer can fuck up. It's all just text. Meanwhile with GUI there are endless opportunities for truly horrid design. Think of Teams. Think of the github web interface. Think of the r*ddit redesign. Or go watch that Tantacrul video on Sibelius. CLI could never have such a breadth of terribleness.
Arch's package manager is pretty terrible.
Here's two commands. See if you can guess what they might do:
Solution
The first command installs a package.The second command updates all packages.
I believe, there's some sort of logic to the letters, but man, most users seriously do not care. They just want to install, update and remove packages 99% of the time, so they shouldn't need to learn that intricate logic for three commands.
I guess, you could use
pkconto do that instead, but that doesn't really help new users...Arch presumes that the user has some familiarity with CLI tools and can read documentation. You couldn't even install it without using the terminal until archinstall became a thing. If it's an issue, Arch is the wrong OS for you.
Besides:
pacman -S- synchronises packages between the remote and local repo.pacman -Q- queries the local repo.pacman -R- removes packages.pacman -F- queries the files of a package.Et cetera.
Yeah built in user screening process. Screwed by endeavourOS though.