[_delirium]

There seem to be two sort of unrelated criticisms here. One's a preference for GUI (or at least full-screen console-mode) interfaces over CLIs, and generally for fewer config files and command-line options. The other is a dislike of chaining piped commands, and a suggestion that integrated scripting languages like Perl are the replacement. But those seem like two pretty wildly different directions to go in. And there doesn't seem to be any argument for either of the points, just personal preference ("I don't like the Unix aesthetic, and you shouldn't either").

The more specific examples are pretty weird, also. Just about every Unix comes with a full-screen text file viewer ('nano' is a decent one). If you don't like bash, you can use a different shell; I mean, he was willing to use a third-party shell on Windows, why not on Unix? One option: http://fishshell.org/

[commandar]

This may be totally unfair to author, but the impression I got was that he was using *nix without really understanding it.