After learning a bunch of command line stuff in a short amount of time and now using it quite often, I really hate seeing posts from tech workers who know better about how command line use is scary or intimidating and inconvenient. You know what was inconvenient? Having to scrounge up an hdmi cable and practically plug it in to everything with a blindfold to do anything with my media server before I started using the command line. Being bombarded with YouTube ads every time I wanted to watch something from my favorite YouTuber who I already support on patreon was also inconvenient. I found a command line tool to download videos from YouTube quickly and easily. Transferring files between devices is so much easier with the command line than it is with GUI or cloud based bullshit. I type one command and boom the file I need is on the device I need it on. A huge inconvenience to me is I haven’t figured out a good way to use some sort of command line interface on my iPhone to transfer files from my iPhone to my workstation, using Microsoft OneDrive is extremely inconvenient for this. Command line interfaces solve a lot of problems for me and could probably solve a lot problems for a lot of other people if they didn’t keep hearing how scary it is from seasoned tech workers.
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in reply to @YuushaRuby's post:
It's scary and intimidating but only in the same way it is for a grandma to use a phone. It's a matter of familiarity and motivation rather than the medium itself being inherently hard to use or inconvenient, if it was introduced in a more friendly manner rather than being hidden away as it is in most popular OSes this all would be a different story.
(also the default command line tooling in windows sucks, tbh. cmd is too finicky and wonky and powershell is too verbose, and there's no pointers for help or installing additional/alternative tools. The default bash/ash setup in *nix isn't perfect but at least it tends to come with detailed manuals and a pre-installed package manager. And to top it off PATH management is incredibly annoying on Windows unless you're using a third-party package manager like scoop or chocolatey [as everyone should imo, but you wouldn't know unless someone told you])
