There are some points in the article about how a CLI is very focused, it does one thing, and only exactly what you tell it to do, which can be nice for overcomi

There are some points in the article about how a CLI is very focused, it does one thing, and only exactly what you tell it to do, which can be nice for overcoming some sort of fear of breaking stuff and losing control. However, research has shown again and again that GUIs are better at most tasks, but not all. One obvious example would be photo handling or sorting, I'd rather do that sort of thing in Picasa where I can see and drag and drop, than through the command-line where I'd have to move the images by remembering their filenames. As always, what the "best" interface for something is depends enormously on what tasks you want to perform. If the task is simply to overcome your fear and having the computer do something, anything, then sure, a CLI might be a good idea.