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Shells offer a significantly faster and more powerful way of running programs when you know how to use them. The "helpful" Windows user is kneecapping the noob by offering a shiny but limiting GUI. Once you get a grasp of basic command line tools, you'll wonder why you bothered with pointing and clicking stuff.
I feel like the shell becomes much more complicated when you want to use configs. Or anything other than basic commands. At that point it becomes a pain in the ass, or tedious.
Other than that I agree. Also, GUI file managers are still superior. Sue me.
I still don't get why people like vim. Like sure, I use it to edit config files and stuff that needs sudo permissions, but in all honesty, if I could use any gui for that, like Kate, I wouldn't see any reason for using vim. Why do I need to relearn years how to Ctrl+ f or exiting the editor? buT iT'S FaStEr. Really? You spend how long looking up guides and cheat sheets on how to use it and it's faster? I mean sure, use what you are comfortable with but can you really say it's that much faster than just any text editor out there?
It's like Dvorak. You can be ~5% faster once you get over the turly enormous learning curve. The problem is, for most people, that 5% does not justify the huge initial investment.
Why would it though? If performing an action through the terminal shaves off only 2-3 seconds who cares?
If I want to open firefox though the terminal I can do that, sure…or I can just point and click on my taskbar/desktop. The time difference is virtually unnoticeable.
There’s a reason GUIs blew up. It’s not just because of user accessibility. There are legitimate things that are faster or less of a hassle with GUIs and I feel like the Linux community forgets that sometimes. Like using the terminal somehow makes them superior.
I can't wait for "I use dvorak btw" to be the new thing. The final stage after you become a vim using Linux expert