For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m surprised at the shortage of good Borg repository visualization tools. There are tools but they’re either incomplete or they try to do too much.

  • fira959@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Git - the Github Desktop application is a great example of how easy git could be for users like me who only rarely use git. Every time I need to do somethign other then a simple pull or push I need to look it up and by the time I need it again I have forgotten the command and need to look it up again. Just give me something like Github Desktop on linux

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    A single, decent, maintained one for LVM.

    Redhat had a couple of goes at this and they suck ass big time and rely on KDE (so no good for any other DE / WM). I’m not sure anything really works, so I’ll say: none exist.

  • Skeletonek@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m missing a good GUI to manage SELinux. It is probably because I don’t know how to handle it but I hate this thing with passion.

      • srecko@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Why would i use something so restrictive as cli tools when i can change the data directly with assembly?

      • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Not at all.They are 2 ways do the same thing. The GUI can tell you what options are available. The CLI needs you to memorise them, or go somewhere else to look them up.

        • francois@jlai.lu
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          9 months ago

          A lot of GUIs have less options available than their CLI equivalents. Moreover GUIs change more often, requiring you to relearn the actions to get the expected result Shells can remember the commands you used, commands are also way easier to write down on paper than a list of actions to do on a GUI And using man or --help is not going somewhere to know the options, you stay in the shell If you want to know all the features of a tool, reading the manual is also easier than browsing all the GUI

          The CLI lets the user automate tasks, giving them more control over their workflow

  • plasticcheese@lemmy.one
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    9 months ago

    Rclone. Not because it’s a complicated tool, but because I would like a history of my file transfers and a few graphs to show we what speeds, files sizes and whether the transfer succeeded. At the moment in order to confirm my home backups have succeeded, I have to run a separate size comparisons between my different datastores.

  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The whole CLI. Linux should automatically generate default GUIs from manpages and code, to be developed further by the crowd of users on the desktop. It’s pointless to handcraft both interfaces one app at a time.

    I like Linux Mint (compared to Ubuntu, Debian, and Windows) because usually right-clicking takes me closer to the solution I’m looking for, but it doesn’t allow me to dig deep enough. It should be discoverable all the way from the desktop to what makes it tick. Think of Smalltalk by Alan Kay in Xerox PARC in the 1970s, or what it would be now had it been mainstream all this time. #discoverability #explorability

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Anything that needs to be configured with YAML, and Kubernetes in particular.

    I mean I get the whole Infrastructure as Code hype (although I have never witnessed or heard of a situation where an entire cluster needed to be revived from scratch), but it should be very possible to make a gui that writes the YAML for you.

    I don’t want to memorize every possible setting and what it does and if someone makes a typo in the config (or in the white space, as it’s YAML) everything is borked.

    Call me old-fashioned but the graphical ui of something like octopus deploy was a thousand times more user friendly imho.

    • Nato Boram@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      That UI is called VSCode

      At the top of your .yaml file, you can set a JSON Schema. Example:

      # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/prometheus.json

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: caddy
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - caddy:2019

      This way, you don’t have to memorize every possible setting and what it does and risk making a typo in the config. VSCode will just tell you.

    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I think infrastructure as code is best utilized when paired with software testing and rapid deployment. It allows for a kind of granularity manual configuration doesn’t give you

    • Baldur Nil@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      I think it’s easy to make a generic YAML editor that all you need to do is to pass a “definitions” file that says all the possible options to show as a drop down or toggle etc.

      That would be useful for many projects.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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    9 months ago

    I’d love supported GUI apps for pacman and systemd. I know there are GUI’s out there for them, but they are not supported by the main project, so they don’t count.

  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    9 months ago

    I’d love to have archivemount or a similar tool integrated in a file manager

    I’d also love to have some sort of full featured gui software to install and manage custom roms in phones, allowing to do everything, from unlocking bootloaders to downloading and flashing/upgrading roms. For the tasks that require manual steps, it could offer illustrated steps, with a community driven database of phone models.

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Mount a network share permanently on Kubuntu. Non IT people need to do backups too. And Plasma apps can’t access network shares unless they are mounted.

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    I’d like a GUI app for generating CLI’s for other GUI apps that don’t have them already. An application is never complete unless everything can be done via a CLI and/or API.

    • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This is an interesting idea. There are some tools out there to auto-generate shell autocompletes based on standardized --help output. Maybe there’s some possibility to GUIfy that sort of thing?

    • Baldur Nil@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      I’m not sure how that could even be done, maybe a way to control the GUI with commands that you’d then be able to script, like Selenium on browsers?