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Using a Windows or any of the Linux Distros as a desktop computer you will find that the GUI programs are designed around the idea of a file system, file paths,

Using a Windows or any of the Linux Distros as a desktop computer you will find that the GUI programs are designed around the idea of a file system, file paths, and generally creating and opening files. On Mac OS X you can use the terminal and be okay. But if you're doing something in the terminal and want to do now combine that with some GUI program, well, good luck. It probably won't even have a way to open files from a folder. The entire filesystem abstraction is hidden and deprecated. It is the core of the Mac OS intended experience.

jitl 4y ago
Wat? `open -a NameOfAppYouWantToUse fileyouWantToOpen.foo` will reliably open a file with whichever app you want. Just `open path/to/directory` will open a Finder window to that directory. The file open dialog in macOS also exists and works just fine. You can drag file icons from GUI apps into terminal windows to insert their absolute path. You can drag files from Finder onto an app icon to open-with that app. Transitioning between terminal workflow and GUI workflow feels better to me on macOS than either Linux or Windows; although with Listary Windows is decent.