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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I like this format. My version is:

A shell is great for things you know how to do well, or do often.

A GUI is good for things you don't do frequently, or don't know well.

The thing that keeps me choosing terminal tooling, though, is the ability to script. Everything a GUI can do, a CLI tool could. The inverse is not true. And many of the advantages of GUIs can be provided by a curses interface, so I find it just easier to stay in a terminal most of the time.