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I assume when referring to productivity benefits you are actually referring to ease of learning? Command shells have huge productivity benefits if you know how
by NickPollard 16y ago
I assume when referring to productivity benefits you are actually referring to ease of learning? Command shells have huge productivity benefits if you know how to use them, their Achilles heel is that it takes quite a while to get used to and to the untrained user they are very daunting, whereas GUIs are more intuitive.
- UnknownSource 16y agoThey have productivity benefits for some things true, but they don't expose or constrain operations very well (ie, I have seen "professionals" do stuff like "rm -rf ~/ folder" before accidentally) . CLI's are generally only good at administration tasks (such as moving files around). In the vast majority of cases though, a good GUI would probably be more productive to work with. But once again, that's my opinion. Until CLI's can expose tasks better, their benefits will be limited.