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Think this is more of a accessibility thing. No one denies the CLI is really efficient to use if you're a professional, it shouldn't be the norm that you have to be proficient with it to use your computer to the fullest though. Nor to receive help if you don't feel comfortable using it.
It would be nice if everyone could enjoy free and trustworthy computing, including people who either can't or won't learn many dozens text commands and paradigms.
The weirdest thing for me is when people complain about terminal when there is a meme how much easier it is to do something on Linux compared to windows or MacOS.
Terminal is the easiest way to highlight that for a meme.
People just donβt want to confess that they are feared from that little black box that apparently kills your whole machine, if you just type a wrong letter having a terminal open. π€
As always,
not enough education in society.
If more people would be brave to test it, more people would see that they can interact like this, better. And some, like me, appreciate the hard work GUI designers do, to make stuff more intuitive in the cost of efficiency
I love GUI with integrated terminal, tho, like dolphin
"i shouldn't have to memorise commands just to do basic tasks"
me:
CLIs are almost always magnitudes more expressive than their feeble, derivative GUIs.
I worked customer support for a WordPress hosting company for a while, and about 70% of all of their troubleshooting was done in terminal. I never used terminal until that job. To this day I do most of my management the same way