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pjmlpyesterday at 6:17 PM1 replyview on HN

X Windows was invented on the 1980's and isn't the only way to graphically access remote systems.

Modern cloud systems shouldn't even have shell access, immutable containers with telemetry data.


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misterderpieyesterday at 6:29 PM

> Modern cloud systems shouldn't even have shell access, immutable containers with telemetry data.

Genuine question, what is your alternative suggestion to accessing lower level features then? A hard time I have with GUIs is that their input/output can't be piped. It's much more cumbersome to try to automate a GUI than to automate something in the terminal.

Whilst I get that this is about TUIs, I do believe there is a reason for shell access due to automation. Good abstractions can be put into the GUI, but I'd argue that you should first build the abstraction, then put a GUI on top of it. AWS is a prime example, any of their APIs can be used w/out AWS Console.

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