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Why Do So Many Linux Users Prefer the Command Line to a GUI?
- nanis 8y agoIt's more that people who know how to use the command line tend to also be Linux users (and, in most cases, in addition to being proficient users of other operating systems).
- microwavecamera 8y agoA fair amount, if not the majority, of Linux users also work with Linux/BSD/UNIX servers, which is all CLI. Once you get the hang of a shell, just about anything you can do in a GUI environment you can do faster from the command line and there's just so much you can't do from a GUI versus the command line. Plus there's still a bunch of us older people around from the era when a CLI was all we had. I'm just used to it.
- daly 8y agoScripting. I have 100 files that need the same operation on them. If they are GUI-only I have to fire up a GUI 100 times. If the changes can be made from a command line it will take me about 60 seconds.