On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:41:08 -0400 Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:35:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > 0 upgraded, 164 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 44.5 MB of archives. > > After this operation, 206 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > I really don't understand why people want a GUI package manager at > all. The last time I used anything even remotely *close* to a GUI > package manager was dselect, back in the previous century. And that > was a curses (terminal) interface, not an X11 one. > > In the last two decades, I haven't used or wanted anything fancier > than apt(-get). > > Now, granted, this is just my personal stance. I may be atypical. > That said, what exactly does a GUI package manager offer you, that > you can't get from "apt install thing-i-want"? > Here's a reason to use a GUI package manager (or even aptitude): you want a package which does X, and you don't know which packages do that. I install stuff with apt and apt-get all the time, but only once I know the package name. Synaptic is easier to "navigate" because, in a terminal, aptitude is all the same size text in different colors. Things sort of jumble together, at least for me. The synaptic GUI separates things out and it's easier to pick out what you want to focus on on screen. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
