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Message: [QUOTE="Guest, post: 1692474"] |> > |> > Then we realise that we are more probably dealing with an eccentric. |> |> Nobody preferring a console interface over a GUI is an eccentric, |> but someone who knows about the power of command lines. |> | No its eccentric. Users generally won't accept command line programs unless | forced to use them. A GUI is generally far easier to use - I'm typing this | into a GUI newsreader. You might call me eccentric, but GUIs really do slow me down. They are most certainly NOT more powerful. CLI is the power. The catch is, CLI requires extra effort to learn because it doesn't have much of a crutch to lean on like some GUIs do. But it's obviously something you would not be able to learn. | Just the vast majority of general-purpose computers in use today. Even jobs | that used to require a mainframe can now often be done on PCs. Things like | supermarket checkouts and airport information screens are often PCs | underneath. | The vast majority of medium-sized systems that aren't PCs are probably games | consoles. They don't use command lines either. Nor do mobile phones. You are living in a virtual game world apart from reality. [/QUOTE]