I'm actually upvoting you. Not because I agree, but because this sentiment is so pervasive I need that responses highlighted instead of buried.
Linux users don't hate GUIs. I say this as someone who's used Linux as a daily driver for 15 years! GUIs have their place, but they aren't for everything. There's are two main issues here
1) The terminal is far more flexible and lightweight. I can do so much more in my terminal and get far more done in less time by using the terminal. Learning a little bash can greatly increase your productivity. And on top of that, I can do this with little cost to resources. I live in the terminal not because it is pretty but because it's faster and more efficient. Yes, there's a learning curve but it pays dividends.
2) customization. Don't confuse this for aesthetics. Those do matter but you should see yourself as an expert craftsman. Your carpenter, engineer, etc all build tools, jigs, and other things to help them, especially with organization. Like them you should create the best environment for you. I know you were told I'm programming classes that the magic is to not keep writing the same lines but to wrap those up. This is the same thing. The aesthetics are so I can see the things I care about the most, not because it's pretty. The aliases and scripts I built are to prevent me from wasting time relooking up things I do intermittently but not frequent enough to memorize. Customization is incredibly hard in GUIs. Dragging and dropping things and half the time the whole fucking screen scrolls because it's hard to not do this. And even then, it gets corrected cluttered and you end up with this long tree of menues. But wait you say, just give it a macro! And at that point, what's the difference? In the terminal we recognize something fundamental: to know it's name is to have power over it.
Yes, this isn't everyone. Every person is on a different part of their journey. And like I said, the customization is about making you productive not trying to find the most optimal, because that idea is laughable. There are good defaults but optimal is personal.
This is why I'll always trust someone more when they live in the terminal. The GUI person might be faster at times but they're limited. The person who will fuck around and find out is the person who will eventually understand more about the complex things they work on. They're more likely to dig deep. And this is the thing silicon valley has lost, the sense of creating what can be, not what is, not someone else's vision but yours.
Linux users don't hate GUIs. I say this as someone who's used Linux as a daily driver for 15 years! GUIs have their place, but they aren't for everything. There's are two main issues here
1) The terminal is far more flexible and lightweight. I can do so much more in my terminal and get far more done in less time by using the terminal. Learning a little bash can greatly increase your productivity. And on top of that, I can do this with little cost to resources. I live in the terminal not because it is pretty but because it's faster and more efficient. Yes, there's a learning curve but it pays dividends.
2) customization. Don't confuse this for aesthetics. Those do matter but you should see yourself as an expert craftsman. Your carpenter, engineer, etc all build tools, jigs, and other things to help them, especially with organization. Like them you should create the best environment for you. I know you were told I'm programming classes that the magic is to not keep writing the same lines but to wrap those up. This is the same thing. The aesthetics are so I can see the things I care about the most, not because it's pretty. The aliases and scripts I built are to prevent me from wasting time relooking up things I do intermittently but not frequent enough to memorize. Customization is incredibly hard in GUIs. Dragging and dropping things and half the time the whole fucking screen scrolls because it's hard to not do this. And even then, it gets corrected cluttered and you end up with this long tree of menues. But wait you say, just give it a macro! And at that point, what's the difference? In the terminal we recognize something fundamental: to know it's name is to have power over it.
Yes, this isn't everyone. Every person is on a different part of their journey. And like I said, the customization is about making you productive not trying to find the most optimal, because that idea is laughable. There are good defaults but optimal is personal.
This is why I'll always trust someone more when they live in the terminal. The GUI person might be faster at times but they're limited. The person who will fuck around and find out is the person who will eventually understand more about the complex things they work on. They're more likely to dig deep. And this is the thing silicon valley has lost, the sense of creating what can be, not what is, not someone else's vision but yours.