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isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by learnbyexample@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cool! And good to see flake.nix right out of the box as well :)

Although I'm a bit annoyed that it forces its own colortheme rather than use the default colors so that it matches the rest of my system.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found a lot of GUI for systemd today:

Desktop https://github.com/hardpixel/systemd-manager

Rust https://github.com/mfat/systemd-pilot

Gnome extension https://github.com/hardpixel/systemd-manager

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Cool! But TUI is cooler!

[–] blackfire@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Thats pretty kewl ill give it a go later.

[+] keinBloudsinn@lemmings.world -7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A TUI? No, thank you.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why??? TUIs are the best kind of UI. They run anywhere and don't siphon your system resources like garbage Electron apps.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

And you can run it over SSH on servers.

[–] keinBloudsinn@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who said anything about electron?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's just an easy thing to contrast against.

Electron is one of the slowest, clunky, memory-hogging ways to have a UI, and TUIs are the exact opposite. I don't care if (name of company that ships Electron slop here) can ship your ~~software~~ webpage masquerading as software to more systems more easily. If your messaging "app" has input lag when I type something, it's a dogshit experience.

Of course, there are ways to ship GUIs that aren't all of the things wrong with Electron, but comparing TUIs with those is less interesting and more a question of if the person likes to live in their terminal or not.

[–] keinBloudsinn@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just don't like tuis. I think they're clunky and usually not well implemented.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's fine. I'm sure there are some sub-par TUIs out there. I've seen pretty great TUIs, especially the ones written in Rust (because of the excellent TUI lib they have).

GUIs are fine too (as long as they don't use Electron lol).

[–] keinBloudsinn@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm open to changing my views. What TUIs do you think are great?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nice!

Well, my favorite is Helix -- a text editor. But it's a TUI in the same way that vim is a TUI, and being that it's a text editor, you're likely to have very strong opinions about whatever your current favorite editor is. Which is totally fine. I'm not looking to start any editor wars.

Here are some others:

jellyfin-tui: nice Jellyfin music player
managarr: manages Sonarr and Radarr servers
wiki-tui: probably goes without saying what this one does 😁
synd: an RSS reader
yazi: file manager

I use way more than just those. If you do find that some TUIs may be useful, there are a bunch more here. If not, I'm still interested in what behaviors you find off-putting about TUIs. Maybe I can incorporate that feedback for TUIs that I write :)