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Imo I don't memorize commands. Everything on my zsh is so aliased that I don't think I can teach someone else how to use any other cli.
It just turned into me telling the machine what I want it to do and let it figure out how to rather than me do every little button click step.
Memorize? Nah.
I search through my endless command history with fzf and look up commands I donβt remember with cheat.sh
Software would be more useful if every end-user program has both GUI and minimal CLI modules, as in Dolphin vs cp, mv etc.
Why?
GUI: Year of the Linux smartphone
CLI: Automation, scripting.
TUI is a subset of GUI that uses text in a terminal to render UI elements. It does not make automation any easier. What you want is called CLI.
I've never met any windows evangelists to be honest. Lots of Apple evangelists though who will spend forever talking about windows. Every developer I've met who uses Windows always had a tongue in cheek sort of "well it kind of sucks in some ways but it's what I'm used to, one day maybe I'll get off my ass and change OS".
Reminds me of the "I use Arch Linux btw" meme which doesn't really happen as much anymore other than as a joke. Also, I use Arch Linux btw
I mean, legitimately, unless you're doing power user things, you don't really need the terminal. And if you are doing power user things, then find me a Windows power user that has never used the command prompt or powershell.
Even if it was less productive, I would insist on it, because it's just more fun.
Noooo, you cannot have a consistent UI/UX experience across platforms with decades old commands and tools, my imaginary grandma might get confused, also you need three IT degrees to type "man command" into a term window.
Tbf, most man files are not easy to understand. Between man, tldr, ArchWiki, and an occasional O'Reilly book I can usually get things done, but documentation on Linux still has a lot of room for improvement.
CLI is fun
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.