Glad I could help.

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No wonder OP is afraid of the terminal, you can’t misspell left-click.

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I’m dyslexic and the terminal can be a challenge some days

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Now that’s a better reason for looking for a GUI solution than the OP had. I hadn’t really considered how dyslexia would affect CLI usage.

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Me too. Just use tab and complete commands that way. Fish or zsh with oh-my-zsh is your friend.

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Sometimes it’s easier to assemble what you need from parts than go adding/removing stuff from somewhat monolithic solutions, tho.

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Most people just want a thing to work though. One member of my family has issues with her iPhone at the moment where the signal is just all over the place. Sometimes not able to receive calls, sometimes not able to make them, sometimes inaudible when the call is made. She’s googled and gone to apple tech support who have given her a list of basic troubleshooting tasks to do, stuff like checking settings. She said to me “I don’t want to go hunting for these things I just want to hand it to someone and they can make it work!”

Linux and computer enthusiasts are happy to assemble things as we need them because the problem solving stuff is satisfying to us, for other people it’s just a slog.

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the problem solving stuff is satisfying to us

Yeah, that stopped being a factor decades ago. I now hate it just as much as any iPhone user. There are reasons beyond “I like how it makes my brain feel”.

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I guess I misunderstood the meme, then: to me it looked like a jab at nerds that ignore “simpler” solutions when they themselves have a problem, rather than said nerds giving overcomplicated advice

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The thing is, though, that command line instructions work on most flavours of whatever distro you have running. If you have an xfce problem it’s fair game to tell you where to click, but if your issue is not related to your desktop environment, giving a solution that works on most, if not all, systems that may have the same issue, is actually a good idea. No?

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And many folks have headless setups — raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It’s kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

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Yes! Command line instructions are often universal instructions. This is imho a huge boon for Linux.

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I use xfce and i like it so far, though it would be good if i could increase the minimize/maximize/tray toolbar’s size

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As long as I’m mocking help forums, I might have a stupid solution for your window decorations, which you can follow at your own risk. I saw your comment and, just out of curiosity, started playing around in a VM with imagemagick, a program I’ve never used before, but that might be useful for you. Here’s what I did:

1.) I copied a theme I liked, in this case “Sassandra”, from /usr/share/themes into ~/.themes.

2.) I renamed Sassandra (in ~/.themes) to Sassandra2 and switched themes to Sassandra2.

3.) I opened up some of the images in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and made note of the geometry of the buttons. In this case, they were 24x17.

4.) I opened a terminal in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and ran a command I got from an AI chatbot and fiddled with it blindly like an idiot until it ran:

find . -type f -exec magick {} -scale 12x17 {} ;

In this case, I wanted to use magick to shrink the icons from 24x17 to 12x17 (though you could just as easily replace “12x17” with an increased size instead), and I wanted to do all the files at once, using the find command as suggested by my robot overlord. It didn’t work as I intended. I never bothered to read any docs. I’m not even sure I put the “{}” in the right spot. But it did shrink the images, preserving the aspect ratio. It also threw up a couple errors because I forgot about the readme and themerc files in that directory. Speaking of which, you can fiddle with the themerc file to make any minor adjustments, like offsetting text.

Edit: In retrospect, the original image files were actually all different sizes and now Sassandra2 looks like crap, but you can always run magick on files individually.

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There must be other ways to do it

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Also, command line allows for greater automation, has more granular control, often has more features and can be… I’m doing ain’t I? I’m being a Freeza.

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“why don’t you just”

╭∩╮(︶︿︶)╭∩╮

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It is always amazing how so many of them can’t help but prove op right any time this comes up.

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Is this a wonderwall reference?

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How many special people change

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How many lives are living strange

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I said maybe (I said maybe) Terminal gonna be the one that saves me (That saves me)

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And after aaaaaall you’re my terminaaaaaaal

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