Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

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On 2025-04-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
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What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?
I thought it wa a passing fad.

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People outside the *nix world are rediscovering the things that the
command line makes easier than any GUI -- namely, automating repetitive
tasks.
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Trouble is, after so many decades of being conditioned by major vendors
like Microsoft and Apple to be allergic to the command line, it’s turning
out to require some major intellectual effort, on the part of both users
and vendors, to get to grips with this new-old way of doing things. Look
at Microsoft’s struggles to turn Windows into something closer to Linux.
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Apple in theory has a slight advantage in that, buried somewhere within
its proprietary OS is the remnants of something that used to be more like
a *nix system. But it seems to have deviated too far from the mainstream,
and the company shows little interest in remedying that.

The command line is like "telling" the computer what to do.  The GUI is
like "showing" the computer what to do.  Not having any command line
usage at all, make certain things, automation, but even composing
commands, very difficult.  Imagine having to work with someone, and you alway had to show them, visually, what to do.  That you could not say to them something like "grab all the bottles of beer with a green label and put them in the tub". You had to instead, point each time.

For example, at work, I often have to do repetive work (such as generate
specifications).  This involves a lot of bring up dialog boxes, clicking
options, saving files, changing filenames, over and over and over again.