What OS do you use? I usually just type 'date' on the terminal.

bbx · on March 11, 2012

Mainly Win 7. Otherwise Mac OS X. Sometimes Win XP, and very rarely Ubuntu.

But I almost never have a terminal open (and don't have a shortcut for that either) whereas Firefox almost always is. So I'm just 1 click away rather than 4 characters away.

You taught me something though (I highly prefer typing on a keyboard than using a mouse or, worse, a touchpad) and I wish I had to spend more time in a terminal.

sbierwagen · on March 12, 2012

Why not? I usually have a terminal open for irc / bc -l / git / checking the headers of pages with curl -I, pinging things, WHOIS lookups, wgetting files, etc etc etc.

bbx · on March 14, 2012

I'm no developer, so I never have to use the terminal. But now that you mention how you use it, I'll probably give it a try.

drivebyacct2 · on March 12, 2012

Because he's mainly in Windows? I avoid the command prompt like the devil there too.