Maybe a characteristic of Linux users is that we use utilities a lot from the command line. dpkg we often run manually for installing a .deb file. I thought a better example might be dbus which applications use to communicate with each other, and sometimes that might come into the terminal output or the log but we don't usually run dbus as a command. Even then apparently dbus is useful from the command line because some applications can receive user-instructions from it. So maybe there's a Linux-y philosophy that software should try to be agnostic to whether it is a program or a utility. Even GUIs are often nicer when the additional work has gone in to let them be scripted and called/"invoked" automatically by another application.
> Maybe a characteristic of Linux users is that we use utilities a lot from the command line. i honestly wouldn't know, i only started learning the terminal when i started learning linux, but i agree that is something that dedicated and experienced linux users do all the time.
Maybe a characteristic of Linux users is that we use utilities a lot from the command line. dpkg we often run manually for installing a .deb file. I thought a better example might be dbus which applications use to communicate with each other, and sometimes that might come into the terminal output or the log but we don't usually run dbus as a command. Even then apparently dbus is useful from the command line because some applications can receive user-instructions from it. So maybe there's a Linux-y philosophy that software should try to be agnostic to whether it is a program or a utility. Even GUIs are often nicer when the additional work has gone in to let them be scripted and called/"invoked" automatically by another application.
> Maybe a characteristic of Linux users is that we use utilities a lot from the command line.
i honestly wouldn't know, i only started learning the terminal when i started learning linux, but i agree that is something that dedicated and experienced linux users do all the time.