“Nah man, you should just install this terminal app and memorize 500 shortcuts to go back one directory”
Linux being easier to use with each passing year to counteracted by the further tech illiteracy of zoomers and alphas.
That’s not the point of this post. I AM using linux. I’m looking for a program but all people want to suggest are terminal shit. I don’t care about “efficiency” or whatever. Just give me a damn UI
Tbh usually any time I want a program in Linux I Google “install x terminal Linux” and it’s almost always been a one liner to paste in
Like I really don’t like using a terminal but it’s gotten me more comfortable with it which is nice
Sorry you’re having a rough time though
This is a tangent, but I think this is a significant security risk for desktop Linux users that only remains unexploited because of the small install base.
A compromised site or browser could easily show the user steps to install malware and with only a minimal amount of obfuscation they would be indistinguishable from legit instructions to a user who doesn’t understand what the commands are supposed to do.
For secure computing you really need a UI which makes it obvious to the user when they are doing something potentially dangerous and when every command is a string of arcane characters, mostly requiring root access, this is impossible.
Installing stuff in terminal is easy. I just don’t like memorizing every keyword and shortcuts for every program
Sometimes doing it in the terminal is literally easier than a GUI app.
Basic terminal navigation is piss easy if you already understand what files and directories are, nobody is asking you to learn Bash in great detail or be a wizz with all the different GNU terminal tools.
The monkeys paw will grant us the year of Linux desktop when the desktop falls out of prominence
The desktop computer has already fallen out of prominence as of about 12 years ago (to laptops). But if you mean the desktop UI concept I don’t see that changing for a while. There are people that do everything on an iPad, sure, but they’re in the extreme minority and it’s mostly basic office shit or digital art. There are also people that use tablets to remote into a desktop computer to do more complex work, but that still requires a full desktop OS.
skill issue
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I’m with you, GUIs are good the terminal should just be for troubleshooting.
I genuinely have tried and will never understand computers and you can never make me.
I’m using this website on safari on my phone and I don’t care.
what GUI app are you looking for btw?
Some sort of diary app with encryption. I originally used Standard Notes but I had to use third party extensions for markdown since native version is paywalled, which is fine. But exporting is a pain because it only exports as .txt lol.
Jrnl looked simple enough even though it’s CLI, but the thing is that it only encrypts individual entries it seems.
I ended up using RedNotebook. It doesn’t encrypt, but I figured it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. I encrypted /home + have a login password so I’m hoping that’s secure enough. I just hate having sensitive things in the open regardless of how many layers of system security I have.
I’m going to use Cryptomator anyway since I have to backup some stuff on the clouds anyway, so I guess I could use that to encrypt the notebook if needed.
if you’re lucky, maybe https://obsidian.md/ or https://silverbullet.md/ have an encrypted option/plugin. https://hackmd.io/ is a self-hostable webserver for markdown notes but probably not not what you’re looking for.
yeah I think plugging your diary app into an encrypted storage location is the best bet. you could use Veracrypt or similar to make an encrypted volume, mount it before writing in your diary, and unmount after you’re done. encrypted /home is probably already good enough, just make sure not to leave your computer running while you’re not at it
I use joplin which uses markdown natively and has e2e encryption with cloud sync. I just use it offline on an encrypted drive so I can’t comment much on the specifics of the encryption features. No diary features out of the box, there are plugins for that but I haven’t used them.
