5 Reasons To Start Using The Linux Command Line
How-To Geek, Monday, October 21st, 2024
You can use Linux without mastering the command line and messing round in terminal windows. But if you do, you'll miss out on the command line's speed, power, and low-level fine-grained control.
Some swear by it, some swear at it. We're talking about the command line, that venerable human-computer interface that's been around for over fifty years and still isn't going anywhere soon. Even in today's world of swish graphical interfaces and touch-screen convenience, there's a place for the command line.
Back when Unix was developed in the late 1960s and very early 1970s, there was no such thing as a graphical user interface (GUI), nor a desktop environment (DE). Typing was the only game in town. If you wanted to interact with a computer, you used a keyboard, and you didn't think twice about it.