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by justinclift 678 days ago
Proper GUI's are nice and all, until you need to do the same thing over an ssh connection.

Sometimes that works ok (ie forwarding X on a high bandwidth connection), but other times the proper GUI acts like a complete pig. :(

A text based GUI sounds like it might be the best of both worlds.

1 comments

greybeard nix admin here: I agree People have forgotten way too many of the lessons we learned in Ops Companies like to slap "agile" and "devops" labels on things, but I see the same old fights... (biased because I hate gui-ninjas)