Anil DashLOL I stepped away from Mastodon for a couple hours and everybody is VERY MAD that I made jokes about CLIs. I use them every day, guys, it's gonna be okay. I promise I did not hurt Zork's feelings. It is, however, a factual statement that CLIs are not discoverable user interfaces and they are a poor choice for mainstream audiences; this debate was settled long ago.
Jacqueline@anildash the CLI is good for people who actually know what a computer is, can read manpages, and write scripts to automate tasks.
Not everyone is willing to learn computer science and the Unix operating environment just to edit their documents and look at cat pictures. This is ok, just as long as everyone is given the autonomy needed to manage their own machine how they want to, and learn how to do things more deeply if their life permits.
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