Comment by slopinthebag
4 months ago
I've never managed to make the terminal work for me. But I've been using windows since I was like 5 and I'm really bad at remembering shortcuts besides a handful of ones I use every day.
> When you reach that point, you will be, on average, much more productive than an average GUI user
How sure are you about that? I often watch streams of people using emacs or vim, with totally custom setups and it seems like a wash to me. They look like wizards doing some stuff, and then other things seem slower than my own workflow.
Absolutely no one ever has been shown to be more productive because they don’t use GUIs. It’s kind of preposterous to think that could be true.
That's a weird thing to say. GUI slows down me A LOT when I sometimes have to switch to it from my terminal for whatever reason. Where did you get your "absolutely no one" data point?
You should read again what I said. Do you think that simply using GUIs makes anyone less productive? You can’t think of any cases where a GUI is definitely better for a task than a terminal? If you think that , consider why the vast majority of people are using GUIs for everything, and only a tiny minority is using terminals for everything. It’s ridiculous, yes, to imagine you would be more productive if no GUIs existed (you just misunderstood my point).
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