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

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    2 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.

    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 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

    • Nato Boram@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      2 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.

  • Skeletonek@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 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.

      • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
        31·
        2 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
          0·
          2 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

      • srecko@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

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

  • fira959@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 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

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      It’s been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you’d asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I’d love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
      0·
      2 months ago

      This, but for a Fireshot like tool. Screenshot and pdf of webpages in their entirety by scrolling while shotting. In bulk, with CLI.

      • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago
        1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
        2. Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it’s so complicated to use)
        3. Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don’t let me

        Just from the top of my head.

  • plasticcheese@lemmy.one
    2·
    2 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.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 months ago

    yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or ‘good enough’ quality video in batches without re-encoding.

    While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn’t provide the same level of functionality.

    • kellyaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I believe ytDownloader might be what you’re looking for. It’s a yt-dlp frontend, you can export to video/audio pretty easily. And it’s in active development. I’ve used it to export short clips to WAV a few times, nothing too fancy, but so far it works pretty well.

    • dizzy@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      There’s a firefox extension that generates the cli command for whatever video you’re on. Let’s you check boxes for the format, sponsorblock, etc and then copies it to your clipboard.

      Just search the addon store for yt-dlp and it should show up

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      Too many options to remember and look up every time

      This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 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.

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 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.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
    0·
    2 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.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    2 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.