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by dreary_dugong 1878 days ago
Great to see the progress on this. It seems my fears have been assuaged and the CLUI keeps all the power of a command prompt while adding discoverability. I still think the average user will stop reading the drop-downs after awhile and just treat it like a normal command prompt once they've memorized everything, but up until that point this seems like a better way to get newbies to learn than telling them to read the man pages. That said, I do still think it's unfair to say that this is equally as approachable and a GUI for the average person. Certainly it's better than a standard CLI, but it's more of an in-between I think.