Shells offer a significantly faster and more powerful way of running programs when you know how to use them. The “helpful” Windows user is kneecapping the noob by offering a shiny but limiting GUI. Once you get a grasp of basic command line tools, you’ll wonder why you bothered with pointing and clicking stuff.

I feel like the shell becomes much more complicated when you want to use configs. At that point it becomes a pain in the ass.

Other than that I agree. Also, GUI file managers are still superior. Sue me.

I still don’t get why people like vim. Like sure, I use it to edit config files and stuff that needs sudo permissions, but in all honesty, if I could use any gui for that, like Kate, I wouldn’t see any reason for using vim. Why do I need to relearn years how to Ctrl+ f or exiting the editor? buT iT’S FaStEr. Really? You spend how long looking up guides and cheat sheets on how to use it and it’s faster? I mean sure, use what you are comfortable with but can you really say it’s that much faster than just any text editor out there?

It's like Dvorak. You can be ~5% faster once you get over the turly enormous learning curve. The problem is, for most people, that 5% does not justify the huge initial investment.