[root_axis]

Of course it's easier, that's why it's the most popular form of computer interface, however what it gains in ease of use it sacrifices in efficiency and precision. Conversely, a CLI is completely opaque to the uninitiated, but it is far more efficient than clicking around an arbitrary sequence of windows/tabs/menus.

[grepfru_it]

To be fair in the early days of NT4 and part of NT5, there was very limited cli support. Especially for management of features such as Active Directory