I'm surprised how many people are dismissive of learning the command line like it's obsolete. I still use the command line constantly and would be lost without

I'm surprised how many people are dismissive of learning the command line like it's obsolete. I still use the command line constantly and would be lost without it, and I'd like my kids to understand what's going on better than they can with a desktop environment. I have a 4 year old and found an old Raspberry pi earlier and decided to hook it up to the TV. She was thrilled (and spent plenty of time using a keyboard and mouse for the first time. She liked it! And we don't hide her from technology) Just because we have calculators doesn't mean learning to do math on paper is a bad idea. I was only slightly older than her in the late 80's when we got a 286 and I learned to do `cd games` `dir` `some_game.exe` etc. and I learned the very basics of what a file/directory structure (something a lot of young adults don't understand) is, among other things. Some games meant editing autoexec.bat and that was helpful for understanding system config. Obviously I'm not looking for autoexec now but just understanding that such a config exists is useful.