The problem isn't that the shell isn't userfriendly, but that the term userfriendly have been morphed to mean "easy to start working with", which is just one pa

The problem isn't that the shell isn't userfriendly, but that the term userfriendly have been morphed to mean "easy to start working with", which is just one part (and often the least important). I argue that the shell is great and very userfriendly. It has a few rules, which can be composed logically without too many gotchas, and if you cannot remember the name of a particulary feature then it is easy to press the tap key and get a hint. I have come to hate how stuff is judged based on superficiallity (how soon can the user use this program) and not on substance (how much benefit will the user eventually derive from this program, even if it takes a week to learn to use it?) It is the same problem with people who don't make the effort to learn to type on their keyboard without looking. Unless you are never going to use a computer, have the respect and decency to yourself and learn to use the tools you have at your disposal.