Well, there are ways to use such commands on windows too, like WSL, git-bash, cygwin, etc. And, there's powershell on windows (though I haven't used it and not

Well, there are ways to use such commands on windows too, like WSL, git-bash, cygwin, etc. And, there's powershell on windows (though I haven't used it and not sure about its capabilities) As to why use shell, that depends on your use case and working environment. Shell is something like an IDE [0] where you can solve multiple tasks from single environment. You don't have to use multiple programs (window manager, text editor, IDE, etc). Since it is all text, you can save and repeat a command, share it with others, edit a previously written command, etc. This is quite different from a GUI based workflow. Personally, I find using command line more productive, but as mentioned earlier, it'll depend on the task at hand. [0] https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/ https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/