God God, yes. Five minutes is enough to learn how to get it going, add breakpoints, see the stack and interrogate variables. On a good day, you can fix a segFau

God God, yes. Five minutes is enough to learn how to get it going, add breakpoints, see the stack and interrogate variables. On a good day, you can fix a segFault faster than it would actually take you to spin up a visual debugger in an IDE or whatever. Sure, it's not the right tool for every job, but as a simple, easy to use, ubiquitous and quick debugger, you'd do yourself a favour spending the five minutes learning how to start using it.