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by darby_nine 645 days ago
> It is also easier for many people to remember how to navigate a GUI/TUI to achieve a task than to use the CLI, likely because it makes use of the parts of our brain for navigating space

I'd be very very surprised if this were true for everyone. I'm certainly more symbol oriented than visually or spatially oriented, for instance, and the ways I AM spatially oriented doesn't map at all to common user interface elements.

Besides, many of the best interfaces (eg magit) aren't spatially oriented at all.

That said, I'll never complain at more interfaces even if I do prefer a query-and-response style interaction.