You Don't Need a GUI

It’s for noobs :slight_smile:

Graphical user interfaces are super friendly to computer users. They were introduced in reaction to the perceived steep learning curve of command-line interfaces (CLIs).

However, they often require more resources, are less powerful and hard to automate via scripting.

As a computer expert, we want to be more efficient and do our jobs better. We know that command words may not be easily discoverable or mnemonic, so we try to list some common tasks that you might be tempted to do in GUI…

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I notice it has instructions for Mac and Linux. No mention of Windows. Those users apparently DO need a GUI, according to the authors. Feh, I remember doing all of those tasks (well, at least as far as I bothered to read in the list) in plain old DOS before Windows was even invented.

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