I started using Plasma for a server I set up last weekend and it’s going great. Widgets are nice (although enterinh/exiting edit mode feels a little janky-- is the mode tracked separately for the desktop and for containers like the top bar?), I even added one to display my external IP in the top bar of my server. The one for displaying the internal IP is broken, though :(
I don’t see why it matters to you, but assuming you’re just curious, it’s much more convenient for me. Using a GUI allows you to multitask and especially track ambient information much better than you can with the commend line. I’m using my server to run several minecraft servers, which I’m recovering from previous drives and attempts from my various computers, so some examples of ways I’ve used the GUI are:
Using online tools such as an NBT viewer by dragging + dropping files from the Dolphin tree view, then ctrl+tab to quickly compare their data structures to find duplicate or backup worlds
Tracking cpu, memory, and disk with desktop widgets to make sure I don’t hit any thresholds even while doing complex or time-sensitive tasks. I can also tell when all the servers have finished starting because the CPU drops significantly
Opening multiple Dolphin windows to move files between more than one location to sort and organize them in bulk (select multiple, drag to move)
And I’ve only had this setup since last weekend.
TL;DR: If you’re multitasking, it’s so much faster to open multiple purpose-built programs than to open multiple shells. Also I use online tools which the command line doesn’t have.
I started using Plasma for a server I set up last weekend and it’s going great. Widgets are nice (although enterinh/exiting edit mode feels a little janky-- is the mode tracked separately for the desktop and for containers like the top bar?), I even added one to display my external IP in the top bar of my server. The one for displaying the internal IP is broken, though :(
Why do you have a GUI on your server at all?
I don’t see why it matters to you, but assuming you’re just curious, it’s much more convenient for me. Using a GUI allows you to multitask and especially track ambient information much better than you can with the commend line. I’m using my server to run several minecraft servers, which I’m recovering from previous drives and attempts from my various computers, so some examples of ways I’ve used the GUI are:
Using online tools such as an NBT viewer by dragging + dropping files from the Dolphin tree view, then ctrl+tab to quickly compare their data structures to find duplicate or backup worlds
Tracking cpu, memory, and disk with desktop widgets to make sure I don’t hit any thresholds even while doing complex or time-sensitive tasks. I can also tell when all the servers have finished starting because the CPU drops significantly
Opening multiple Dolphin windows to move files between more than one location to sort and organize them in bulk (select multiple, drag to move)
And I’ve only had this setup since last weekend.
TL;DR: If you’re multitasking, it’s so much faster to open multiple purpose-built programs than to open multiple shells. Also I use online tools which the command line doesn’t have.