| "It's simply an obstacle to overcome before one can get real work done." Since we're expressing our personal opinions, that's exactly how I would describe a GUI. There's nothing exciting to me about the command line EXCEPT that it allows one to avoid the "bullshittery" that finds its way into almost every GUI. Same is true for UNIX in general. Not exciting EXCEPT to the extent it lets me escape the layers upon layers of abstraction, the complexity, the hassles, the unreliability and the general unrobustness of graphical operating systems. Those are big exceptions. So yeah, I do like the command line and barebones UNIX-like operating systems. I simply cannot get "real work" done without a UNIX-like OS and a command line. The work I perform makes those graphical operating systems and programs hang or crash or is nearly impossible to accomplish without acquiring a repetitive stress injury. I did not create this state of affairs. I have simply adapted to it. |