> That is enough to scare me off of trying to use parallel for casual tasks. Just because emacs is such a complex software, does that mean no one can start lea

> That is enough to scare me off of trying to use parallel for casual tasks. Just because emacs is such a complex software, does that mean no one can start learning it? No. As far as GNU parallel goes simply just understand what `:::` operator does and you can start using it in your workflow today. Software is not complex for the sake of beginners, it is complex so experts have a higher variety of features.