Console for the heavy stuff. I'm more comfortable doing a find in the console than letting a desktop app do it for me...
Updates: console...
System stats : console...
I practically "live" there, but then...I use Manjaro
Melissa

GUI desktop

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Jeremy,

Thanks for asking this question.

I guess I'm somewhat old school.

I actually login and then startx... about 99% of the time. I'm running WnidowMaker (I never quite got over the demise of OpenLookWindowManager (replaced by CDE (not well supported))... It seems to be somewhat small in terms of footprint and is fairly fast to boot. I build it from it's git repository. At startup time, I have multiple konsoles (KDE) running along with xosview (built from source).

I really like konsole (especially tabs) but it has it's problems: font management, config problems (session, desktop (i.e., virtual desktops). Some, maybe all, of these "difficulties" could be WindoMaker which is not supported as well as I would choose... but, it's still cool.

Other questions? Just ask me.

Best regards and STAY SAFE!

George...

Don't know if this applies but I use BASH in Windows 10 and of course, always command line.
Would be interested if there is a GUI solution for that. Could not find one.

In my pre-retirement days, used both GUI and command line. Dealt a long with specialized searches and were easier to build in command line for someone who started in IT in 1964 . . . Hah!

I can imagine that default command line in Windows can be painful. But it is Cygwin, yes/ I mean bash is shell for POSIX systems. Windows is not POSIX.

Both, but I favor the ease of use with a GUI.

Gui: web browser, LaTeX editor, VCL, pluma for txt and m-files, atril
Terminal: octave, SAGE, bash, file managing

Well...

Both! {sorry}

When I am doing "Linux-grunt" things, I prefer a terminal, since the terminal applications allow more control on the process.

For "goofing-off" things, like playing games, videos, and music, I prefer a GUI.

Hey...

What do you mean a "GUI solution for that"? You're using CYGWIN? REALLY cool... it's terminals(?) accept unix/linux commands and other "things" and sort of translates them to "Windoze"... sort of. On a laptop at Cisco, I built X11 and other unix commands... gcc, et. al... Looked like a Linux work station. :-)

I started my IT career in around 1966(?)... on a 360-25 running dos compat. Did pretty much all mainframes as SysProg up to S390 IIRC... MVT/MVS/VM/ 360/370/390/ESA... most flavors... No ZOS or ZVM though. Would like to give them a shot.

George...
grgoffe@yahoo.com

Proper poll added.

--jeremy

I started with an ACTUAL terminal and AT&T Unix. But for Firefox, I would only have a dozen terminal windows open.

Terminal for serious work. GUI for frivolities.

I use both. Is there a good LibreOffice or Gnumeric-compatible ncurses-based spreadsheet?

Both for me.

I use the terminal window for a number of tasks, some of which I have written shell scripts to automate them. On the other hand, for routine software management work with reasonable GUI interfaces I like to use those interfaces. For working with mysql/maria I have written my own GUI interfaces in C and prefer to use them rather than do everything from the mysql command line. I think I use the terminal about 1/2 the time and the GUI for the other half.

Both, and then some. For web browsing, e-mail, spreadsheets and word processing I use Windows 10, MSOffice and Outlook. On one of my two Linux systems I keep a GUI running (Gnome on lbuntu) with two open browser windows running weather radar maps 24/7. When I want to do some serious work, my preferred method is to open 3 or 4 or 5 X-windows (Xming server) on my Windows desktop accessing one or both of my Linux systems. I use this for bash, vi, scripting, AWK, Grep, sed, etc., Linux system management, file system maintenance. My last resort would be vi-c-make... Sometimes I will use the Linux GUI for system management because the GUI tools are better at showing popular options for various admin tasks and making quick & dirty changes, but I never trust it to show me the complete range of configuration options. If I have to do anything serious on the Windows system, my first stop is to open WSL window or two, with a last resort being Windows command line. On my phone and tablet, I keep Termux and ConnectBot handy to open local or remote bash windows respectively.