On Windows 11, is it superior to use the command line interface (e.g., terminal) for interacting with yt-dlp? Or is a GUI like stacher.io sufficient for 99% of needs?

I'm also curious if it is better to use an Ubuntu WSL for yt-dlp CLI for a more streamlined terminal

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[–] soaringeagle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

do you use a WSL or powershell? windows terminal is inferior to linux terminal imo

[–] drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use PowerShell for damn near everything. But I'm pretty sure when you're just typing yt-dlp, space, then pasting the url, then any terminal is as good as any other.

[–] soaringeagle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

good point, i did not know that you could change the configuration file instead of adding all the -cookies and -mp3 tags to the yt-dlp url ... command

[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

windows terminal is inferior

Note that there is an application called Windows Terminal and that's a terminal, not a shell. You can run any shell in it (including alternative or WSL shells).

I primarily use native Nushell via Windows Terminal.

You're not stuck with PowerShell or batch on Windows.

[–] soaringeagle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Until you pointed this out I never realized that windows terminal and command prompt are entirely different applications lol