[cameronbrown]

General purpose for me tends to be a loose definition of communication /media in any form (web pages, IM, video, photos, games..) either consumption or creation.

CLI works incredibly well for anything related to controling systems (local, web servers), or running any kind of processes at scale (web scraping, photo metadata). Discovery is the biggest problem here, though I do believe it's solvable. If I want to do any one-off task, such as resizing an image, that's incredibly easy to locate and do within the typical operating system GUI, whereas to do it in CLI I'd have to resort to man-pages or search engines to figure out what command to execute.