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To each their own, I guess. I’m guessing many people who work with the kind of environments you’re describing are like me in that I prefer everything as pure te
by 3np 6y ago
To each their own, I guess. I’m guessing many people who work with the kind of environments you’re describing are like me in that I prefer everything as pure text and pipes (*sh/vim/sed/grep/awk/jq/tr/cut/xargs/curl/etc). It definitely is a longer learning curve but at some point everything becomes the same whereas with GUIs there’s a new flow for every system and there’s a bottleneck in how much you can manage manually and visually.
There’s no going back to GUIs when the shell and keyboard become and extension of your mind.
But I think you have a point in that there’s an big user base of somewhat-power-users that prefer visual interfaces and that there’s a better middle ground to be found. The biggest hurdle I see is that tools like that easily become outdated, have selective platform support, aren’t as extendable and customizable, etc. it’s a vastly bigger undertaking to make something that can work everywhere with everything in the way text UIs can.