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An effective terminal is a feature, not a bug. Every Linux problem has the same solution: search the web, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
No navigating through "settings" and "preferences" and "tools" menus to figure out where this particular developer decided to hide that particular setting. Just copy and paste, problem solved.
That's a bad take. Learning the bad habit of copy/pasting command and depending on the Internet to do the most basic changes to your computer is not a "feature" of the terminal. I can Google how to navigate Windows control center too.
Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI, it's way easier than navigating terminal flags and switches.
This assumes the developer bothered to make that setting available through the UI.
With the terminal, that isn't a problem: You're using the same UI as the developer.
That assumes the programmer bothered to make user friendly flags... The terminal doesn't magically just work.
With open source, the delineation between "user" and "programmer" is arbitrary and capricious. The GUI-centric Windows approach reinforces that artificial distinction; the terminal breaches that barrier.