>>21
GUI is the future
Graphics have their uses - for graphical operations, but they are not good for non-graphical operations such as file and text handling. They are hard to specify, hard to do, and resource-consuming. Even if we don't give a shit about the later:
- Specifying a complex operation, such as find -type d -daystart -mtime +30 | xargs rm -R, is tremendously difficult, due to the terrible lack of expressiveness of GUIs, due to the terribly difficult to do such an expressive interface. And when/if you managed to do support doing all of this in a single operation, you'd see using the GUI would be much harder than just typing the command.
- They are slow to work with. Using my fingers to type just five, five fucking characters, let's assume all letters, all latin and all lowercase, I have access to 11881376 items - commands, files, whatever they may be. That's over 6 times the number of pixels in a 1600×1200 screen, and of course, you can't possibly point and click to single pixels; you have to use much larger clusters; 8×8 in the VERY least. Access to commands and files, especially those you know, is much easier with text than graphics. Moreover, you can learn specific finger movements to get every frequent command or perform every frequent operation, which you can never do with your hand because the mouse has state and high precision. You can also type much faster than you can point and click.
- They can't be scripted, which means they fail. You have to click your way all the time; you don't even have simple macros. And if there are scripting systems, they are either rudimentary and of little use, or tremendously difficult and cumbersome to use, because they are bound to depend on specifying geometry, or to depend on a huge ass bloated object hierarchy.
>>23
Lol
>>27
Try FAR Manager or Midnight Commander. Especially the former, though Windows/Wine only, is the best file manager I could find. You get instant visualization, a command line and console (unlike mc), you save the time to type the source and destiny directories (thanks to two panels), you can do an assload of operations with simple, reasonably intuitive or customizable key combinations (which you do even faster than you type commands), and if you want to waste your time, you can use a mouse, but nobody would want to.