[ams6110]

I'm the opposite, I avoid GUIs. I use pretty much only the shell, and text-oriented programs. I use a graphical desktop just to manage my terminal windows. The only other application I use daily is a web browser.

I guess maybe because I started with computers before there were GUIs that is what felt normal.

[thomastjeffery]

> I guess maybe because I started with computers before there were GUIs that is what felt normal.

For me, probably not. I did use DOS before Windows as a kid, but that was long before really learning to use a shell. Familiarity with DOS simply made me familiar enough with the idea to be unafraid of it.

When I learned to manage files, handle software, etc. I learned to do it with a GUI in Windows. When I started to use Linux, I was vaguely aware of the usefulness of a shell, and took the opportunity to really learn. To this day, I rarely even have a file manager installed, in favor of a shell environment.

[jwhite]

Ha! I should have been more precise in my language. I was avoiding learning how to write more substantial shell scripts and programs, not the command line per se.

I also got my start on pre-GUI computers (a VIC-20, specifically).