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by alpaca128 2021 days ago
I find it interesting how GUI and CLI drift apart so far in this area. Powerful GUI software for specialised tasks is often overloaded with buttons and toolbars everywhere because the user needs to be able to click them. The terminal is the complete opposite, instead of clicking through menus to find the right option(or use a ton of keyboard shortcuts) you have to know what to type. But it's also very efficient and flexible, and in exchange for more difficult discoverability of features it circumvents menus completely.
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That's true, but I think GUI drifts back when you consider the arcane keyboard shortcuts a good GUI has for power users.