[0ct4via]

How do you work that one out?

The average user shouldn't need to delve into the command line -- whether it's macOS, Windows, Ubuntu (for example), whatever -- that's the whole point of a GUI.

System Software (later Mac OS, for Mac OS 7.6 through Mac OS 9) didn't have a command line interface available. That did Apple pretty well from 1984 to 2001.

Mac OS X (and later OS X, then macOS) obviously have the Terminal app, but it is neither a requirement nor in common usage for the average desktop user.

Maybe don't be so classist and reductive? Not everyone hangs out on HN and uses terminal emulators regularly...

[bookofjoe]

I've been hanging out on and enjoying HN daily for many years and I STILL have NO IDEA what a Terminal app or command line is — nor will I ever try to find out.

[0ct4via]

That's perfectly ok -- it's saddening when there are demeaning comments like above -- it's elitist and exclusionary.

You keep doing what you're doing -- I'm pleased to have encountered the world's most popular blogging anesthesiologist!

[bookofjoe]

38 years of passing gas was enough.