Yesterday I was on a voice call with some TRON players, and a new player had a problem with their game failing to download some of the multiplayer maps. So we were helping this new guy download his maps from the website manually, and someone in the voice chat said “Just use curl to download them, it’s easier than using the gui”.
Now for those who don’t know, curl is the command line interface command to access a website. So this person is saying it’s easier to browse the internet in a bash client, typing in all your commands, than to use firefox to surf the internet.
Linux users, man! I have so much respect for the older people who are so used to using CLIs
If my imagination how that website might look like is right, the guy was totally right
And bonus points: next time they need to download/update them, they can just bring the one-liner back from history, instead of doing all that clicking and waiting and choosing directory again
GUIs have lower entry bar but in the long run TUIs and CLIs are just more user friendly. One only needs to learn a bit beforehand
I don’t think this is about age. When I was a kid it already was GUIs everywhere. Yet, I’m a CLI/TUI person