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There's a kind of command line carcinization where computer people especially Linux people gradually gravitate to command line workflows because especially on Linux there's just too many times you open the GUI tool, get halfway through the task, and then realize the GUI tool can't actually do what you need and you need to start over with the command line version. When this happens enough times you just go to the command line first rather than potentially waste your time
Nah, it's because Linux is GNU, and GNU really IS Unix, and on Unix you are SUPPOSED to use the command line.

This is apparent to me because I predate Linux and predate GUIs. The whole IDEA of the Unix shell was to empower the command line. Other command line processors for similar computers did not do that. They merely ran programs.
Other command line processors for similar computers did not do that. They merely ran programs.

Not true of Multics.

but then that was the direct ancestor of Unix.
@kah0mono It's not true of various IBM OSes for computers of different essential kind, either. One can do database programming in their command languages, and RPG is used the way C is used in Unix.
@kah0mono C itself is a high level assembler for PDP/11. 😀
GUI : CLI is like Mobile app : Web app.

Except the CLI doesn't constantly prompt you to "use the GUI!"

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