On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 at 04:48:35 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I know the commandline scares away your average joe. That's the kind of audience GUIs are catered to, which is understandable. What gets annoying is when you're *forced* to use GUI even if you're not the average joe. Many tasks in Windows simply cannot be done without clicking through the GUI. You have no choice in the matter. Where it get ugly is when the GUIs in question have issues, like non-resizeability or non-copyability where there's no *technical* reason why it cannot be done. That's when I start wishing it was Linux where I can just fire up a text editor and edit system config files directly instead of getting an aneurysm from clicking the rodent trying to coax it to do what I want.
Well, any interface may or may not provide desired features. It being config files, CLI or API, every feature still must be implemented, and if it's not the user is out of luck.
