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by saiya-jin 1399 days ago
> And debloated the luxury of not having to drop to the command line to fix many of my problems.

are you sure this is covered?

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Yep, there's far more GUIs and desktop support for tasks than in days of yore.

There's definitely still a mindset that the command line is much easier from a documentation/support point of view which means that forum responses and tutorials will still refer to the command line a lot.

However, compared to when I started in 2011 there isn't a need to use the terminal like there was back then. The terminal is only really needed if you're doing something new or niche