Poll of the Day > Is it normal for lay-users to not find the command prompt all that helpful?

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It seems like it is only good for system administration purposes and the occasional edits that a programmer must make to his or her system to accomplish something. Anything I need to do in the command prompt (move files, open programs, etc.) I find faster to do with the Windows GUI. It does not seem like a tool that would be useful for every-day computer usage for some lay-user, bottom-line. These are my initial impressions of this sysadmin tool as an inexperienced computer-user. I wonder if they are accurate. Anyway, are you the type of user to use the terminal/cmd regularly? If so, when do you usually need to use it?

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I pretty much never use it unless I'm trying to fix something that fucked up somehow

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fuckin hate using the command prompt

just give me a gui instead of having me google what the fuck command i thought i remembered in a different device

this extends to the terminal in linux, since its just a fuckin command prompt

the terminal is so easy you just type jaiakfmaoajv:&@;ai!;@;@-! and then you can type what you want to do in it! much easier than going through a menu or something

nah bitch, it definitely is not better than clicking a fuckin icon

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EclairReturns posted...

Anyway, are you the type of user to use the terminal/cmd regularly? If so, when do you usually need to use it?

My favorite Linux distro is Slackware and it doesn't have any GUI tool for software management. Even the best 3rd-party package manager, sbopkg(which is just a front-end to slackbuilds.org), is a curses-based shell script. Also the entire system is mostly configured through shell scripts and plain text files. Using a quick for loop in the terminal is a good way to process files/folders individually and run commands on them and I found myself doing that often. I mean the terminal is extremely useful, but most people don't want to learn that shit because they have no reason or interest.

CMD doesn't even compare to a Linux terminal. Maybe Powershell is more like it.

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If you consider 'lay user's to be a person who doesn't know how to use a CLI then this is a tautology

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