Post #2152421
2026-04-11 11:56 UTC
@linux_mclinuxface
I usually prefer a CLI to either in sysadmin contexts, to be honest. You have to be a lot more specific and draft everything out at once, which for me at least helps reduce catastrophic errors.
I don't know if I use a TUI for anything on my server other than displaying statistics or system resources or whatever.
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@jkoan@fosstodon.org 2026-04-11 12:08
@amin @linux_mclinuxface o right, for remote headless monitoring I agree that TUIs are great. I think of htop or iotop
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@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org 2026-04-11 12:14
@amin CLI wasn’t a choice intentionally 😉 But I get it: click ops are a problem. OTOH something are better interactively where a command line tool doesn’t illustrate the temporal aspect of a problem well. Take a CPU load issue: a static list of processes by CPU load from ps might not catch a momentary spike, but htop for a few seconds will give show you what to kill.