Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?
I thought it wa a passing fad.

People outside the *nix world are rediscovering the things that the
command line makes easier than any GUI -- namely, automating repetitive
tasks.

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.

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.