[themartorana]

It's not that simple. The shell for you and me is muscle memory. For someone who takes a "boot camp" and then doesn't use what they've learned for 3 weeks, the boot camp was a waste of time.

Haven't you ever come back to a piece of code from a month ago and had to reacquaint yourself with it? (I know I can't be unique in that... ;) ) We cram an awful lot into our heads as devs, there's no room for things we barely use from a month ago.

To you, the shell may be perfect. For someone else, it's a severely antiquated method of input that was outdated after Windows 3.1.

I love me some shell, but that's you and me. Not all devs.

Edit: reminds me of CPR class. After a month or so, you better brush up lest you actually need to use it!

[nameless912]

Here's what you do: in the middle of the night, sneak into all of your devs' offices and fuck with their xorg.conf's. Make them drop to command line only for a couple weeks (because we all know it takes at least that long to diagnose an xorg.conf....) and they'll learn. Oh they'll learn ;)

[chii]

That's like saying you drop a modern human in the middle of the jungle, and tell em to survive for a week. I'm sure they'll "learn", or die trying but is that really a good way to do it?!

[rakoo]

Or they'll quit. Oh they'll quit ;)

[skykooler]

or, they'll just reinstall the OS, if they have decent backups.

[icholy]

you're a terrible person

[nameless912]

I also kick puppies and write one word commit messages.

[themartorana]

But I like them.