Life on the Command Line
►http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/04/09/life-on-the-command-line.html
A few weeks ago, I realized that I no longer use graphical applications.
That’s right. I don’t do anything with GUI apps anymore, except surf the Web. And what’s interesting about that, is that I rarely use cloudy, AJAXy replacements for desktop applications. Just about everything I do, I do exclusively on the command line. And I do what everyone else does: manage email, write things, listen to music, manage my todo list, keep track of my schedule, and chat with people.
I also do a few things that most people don’t do: including write software, analyze data, and keep track of students and their grades. But whatever the case, I do all of it on the lowly command line. I literally go for months without opening a single graphical desktop application. In fact, I don’t – strictly speaking – have a desktop on my computer.
I think this is a wonderful way to work. I won’t say that everything can be done on the command line, but most things can, and in general, I find the CLI to be faster, easier to understand, easier to integrate, more scalable, more portable, more sustainable, more consistent, and many, many times more flexible than even the most well-thought-out graphical apps.
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