I wish CLIs would become more popular amongst the general population, but it seems GUIs (which are also becoming "flatter" and less discoverable, ironically enough) have taken over completely for almost everyone.
I like the terminal, and I am also a reasonable touch typist. I don't particularly enjoy typing though. I've tried a few different keyboards. And I _do_ get the power of the CLI. But I think it's a barrier to computer input. And it's a barrier to free conversation. Check Youtube comments for example. I think some of the terseness (think Twitter) results as a result of text entry being laborious. I'm not familiar with using a tablet - and I always feel somewhat restricted and impotent when using mobile devices, which I figure others feel when using a keyboard.
OSs could make text entry far better and centralise it. Portable dictionaries and shortcuts for example. Yeah you can do that by keeping shell scripts on a remote, but it all feels a bit hodge podge.
Jumping from one CLI to another, different apps, etc can feel nasty. And I'm personally not happy putting my primary CLI in a cloud based SILO.
Didn't have. A screen.
So I asked the guy, "Where are your MP3s?" (Answer, "D:\Mp3"), turned on the computer, then hit:
- WinKey-R
- D:\ <Enter>
- Mp3 (quickly, in order)
- Context Menu Key
- P (as in "P"lay in Winamp)
Let me see you control a computer blindly with nothing but a mouse :).
- WinKey-R
- narrator <enter>That's not to say that you couldn't come up with an interface for controlling a computer blindly with a mouse.