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Implying that there's something wrong with folks that prefer a GUI to a CLI, and that these people are somehow less talented...

mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Artists that paint by numbers are less talented. Oh wow, such a daring thing to say. Of course folks who get scared of a terminal are less "talented" at hardcore IT. That's like a painter being afraid of palets and brushes.
xfitm3 6y ago
Anecdotally this has been my experience. Just one sample size out of many but I do prefer working with people who share an affinity for CLI.
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  I don't think it's an issue of talent. But a preference for GUIs often hampers people and the work they support. You can't compose GUIs like you can CLIs, and that's important as your workflows become more complex and need to involve more things. You can either extend the GUI (Hah! only if you own it or it's open source) or develop manual processes, or use tools that can automate GUIs but tend to be fragile.
  - oblio 6y ago
    > You can't compose GUIs like you can CLIs You can, actually, but few companies bother to do it. There are quite a few apps with macro functionality, where each GUI option is also a command and you can record those commands. I imagine they have too few users who use that functionality so that's why they're so rare.
    - ByteJockey 6y ago
      By compose I think they meant use two different guis in the same workflow, sort of like how you can pipe the results of one command into another.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  As mentioned on a sibiling thread, when I started in computing CLI was the only option and I don't miss those days. Xerox Computing / Lisp Machines >>>> UNIX CLI My affinity for CLI boils down to Powershell capabilities over classical UNIX shells, including having a REPL and debugger.
black_puppydog 6y ago
> are GUI only the "only" really does imply that for me.

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Implying that there's something wrong with folks that prefer a GUI to a CLI, and that these people are somehow less talented...

by RhodesianHunter 6y ago

mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Artists that paint by numbers are less talented. Oh wow, such a daring thing to say. Of course folks who get scared of a terminal are less "talented" at hardcore IT. That's like a painter being afraid of palets and brushes.
xfitm3 6y ago
Anecdotally this has been my experience. Just one sample size out of many but I do prefer working with people who share an affinity for CLI.
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  I don't think it's an issue of talent. But a preference for GUIs often hampers people and the work they support. You can't compose GUIs like you can CLIs, and that's important as your workflows become more complex and need to involve more things. You can either extend the GUI (Hah! only if you own it or it's open source) or develop manual processes, or use tools that can automate GUIs but tend to be fragile.
  - oblio 6y ago
    > You can't compose GUIs like you can CLIs You can, actually, but few companies bother to do it. There are quite a few apps with macro functionality, where each GUI option is also a command and you can record those commands. I imagine they have too few users who use that functionality so that's why they're so rare.
    - ByteJockey 6y ago
      By compose I think they meant use two different guis in the same workflow, sort of like how you can pipe the results of one command into another.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  As mentioned on a sibiling thread, when I started in computing CLI was the only option and I don't miss those days. Xerox Computing / Lisp Machines >>>> UNIX CLI My affinity for CLI boils down to Powershell capabilities over classical UNIX shells, including having a REPL and debugger.
black_puppydog 6y ago
> are GUI only the "only" really does imply that for me.