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by z3t4 2540 days ago
If it gets the job done, and creates some value for the user, the user will go over hoops in order to use it (even pay money) ... I find it funny that we are still emulating old terminals. And still building new apps for them. Plain text however gets the job done. It's very powerful to search for a solution on the web, and find instructions on how to do just about anything by copy/pasting a bunch of commands into the terminal. Personally however I prefer GUI's because I can't seem to remember all the commands or keyboard-keybindings unless I use them daily. And if done correctly, a graphics interface can be more intuitive and have better feature discovery compared to a text interface.