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If you install a typical Linux distribution you can use it completely with your GUI. Of course you can also do this in your server or on the raspberry-pi that you use in your weather station but for servers and small devices it is much better to use the command-line-interface (CLI).
 
If you install a typical Linux distribution you can use it completely with your GUI. Of course you can also do this in your server or on the raspberry-pi that you use in your weather station but for servers and small devices it is much better to use the command-line-interface (CLI).
   
Here is a list of advantages of the CLI over graphical user interfaces (GUI):
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Here is a list of advantages of the CLI over graphical user interfaces (GUI), most of which are specially relevant on servers that sit in a server room at the other end of town:

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Advantages of CLI

If you install a typical Linux distribution you can use it completely with your GUI. Of course you can also do this in your server or on the raspberry-pi that you use in your weather station but for servers and small devices it is much better to use the command-line-interface (CLI).

Here is a list of advantages of the CLI over graphical user interfaces (GUI), most of which are specially relevant on servers that sit in a server room at the other end of town: