{"id":286932,"date":"2026-07-07T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/stop-opening-your-browser-for-these-8-tasks-the-terminal-does-them-better\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:00:08","slug":"stop-opening-your-browser-for-these-8-tasks-the-terminal-does-them-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/stop-opening-your-browser-for-these-8-tasks-the-terminal-does-them-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/dont-use-your-browser-for-these-tasks-the-terminal-is-better\/\">Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/dont-use-your-browser-for-these-tasks-the-terminal-is-better\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/dont-use-your-browser-for-these-tasks-the-terminal-is-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-07 14:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Terminal is approachable, faster, and ad-free\u2014learn it to get things done.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Use built-in CLI tools for passwords, weather, IP, speed tests, conversions, translations, and downloads.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Install tools (openssl, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, qalc, speedtest-cli) to supercharge workflows on Linux or Windows.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The terminal looks like an unassuming (sometimes intimidating) black box and feels like it\u2019s only meant for pros or experts. It\u2019s not as inscrutable as it seems though. Anybody can learn to use it and get stuff done. Once you get the hang of it, you\u2019ll often find yourself launching a terminal instead of opening a new browser tab. That\u2019s because the terminal is faster, reliable, and never shows ads.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever possible, I\u2019ve included tools that are available on Windows, so you can run them directly within the Windows Powershell terminal or Command Prompt. However, Linux has much wider support for command-line tools, which is why I recommend following along on a Linux desktop or setting up a WSL box on your Windows machine.<\/p>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Microsoft<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"generate-secure-passwords\">\n                        Generate secure passwords<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"no-password-manager-needed\">\n        &#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/dont-use-your-browser-for-these-tasks-the-terminal-is-better\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/dont-use-your-browser-for-these-tasks-the-terminal-is-better\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/illustration-featuring-a-terminal-icon-a-password-field-filled-with-asterisks-a-pac-man-like-shape-connected-by-dotted-lines-and-blurred-terminal-output-with-ip-information.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-286932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286934,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286932\/revisions\/286934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}