Give me a CLI over a GUI any day.
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@lauren Amen! Preach on, my Brother!
I can't stand a WIMP interface. Everything takes so long, and requires micro-precision in pointing. Even then, you have to resort to arrow keys when it thinks you pointed to the left, but you pointed to the right.
Even the CLI on Windows is better/faster/cheaper. But do I really have to type "powershell 'certutil -validate -enterprise NTAuth | tee cert.txt'" just to have the 'tee' command? Still, there's no way to do this task with the GUI anyway.
@lauren Even a TUI is better than a GUI
@lauren I had a long chat with gemini yesterday. And it hit me, the thing about GUIs, is they really messed us up.
This is how things needed to work,
ctl-> cursor movement,
esc: program commands, which was mapped to ALT
finally the OS key windows or whatever, which mapped to ctl->alt
The layers above that would grab keys randomly, and arbitrarily. I'd forgive most of the GUI sins if they didn't destroy my muscle memory.
