Posted March 26th, 2004 @ 11:59pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: What percentage of your time is spent using the terminal (if 100% = terminal + "GUI apps")?
My Answer: 5%, but that's also a good thing: it demonstrates that I can get in and get out very quickly when I need to do CLI work.
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Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 12:26am #
100%!!!! Oh you mean how much of the time I spend in the terminal and not how much of the time it's a launched app. Oh about 15%. Editing of conf files, cvs, touching files all things I prefer to do in the terminal. That's not to mention doing admin tasks on the remote server, etc.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 12:40am #
Terminal is set to launch on login on both of my Power Books. I probably spend between 15% and 20% in terminal between admin tasks, programming and compiling tasks, remote logins and security work.
I love Aqua too though, even if I miss some of the custom features of Enlightenment and WindowMaker, heh heh. OS X rocks!
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 1:49am #
Probably about the same 5%...sometimes clicking won't get a task done as fast and stable as a command-line one will.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 2:33am #
30%
I hardly ever use the finder anymore.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 7:33am #
Depends on the task I'm doing, maybe about 40%. Less when surfing the web, more when programming. For file navigation I'm using the Finder, the open-command and folder drag-to-terminal helps to easily move between those two environments.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 1:14pm #
10% - I usually use unix cli to organize big chunk of files. I find it faster using cli than drag files here and there.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 4:06pm #
99%. Seeing as my mac is basically a way to ssh into remote servers to do work, this is as expected.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 10:09pm #
0%. I don't touch the terminal.
Posted 27 Mar 2004 at 11:16pm #
I'd say about 1 or 2%, as in it's really rare, but it does happen sometimes.
Posted 28 Mar 2004 at 2:43pm #
Probably about 40% between mutt, irc and perl. The other 60% is spent in BBEdit, Safari, NNW and iChat.
Posted 29 Mar 2004 at 9:12am #
Probably about 75% - 80% in the terminal (Linux). I'm a vi geek, preferring it even over nice GUI apps like Zend Studio for coding.