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What’s odd is why anyone would want to live in a terminal? It would be great if somebody can articulate that crisply.

Ps I love working in the terminal too but see it hard nosed to do everything there.

I find programming arbitrary combinations of programs to work together (i.e. processing information through some flowchart) much more productive and easier with terminal interfaces than GUIs. Terminal interfaces are also easier to use remotely, in my experience. Otherwise, they're good or bad depending upon the program implementation in question.

Lower cognitive load iif the terminal interface is good. Thats a big if.

I prefer terminal for git and file management; for programming sometimes i like ides more.

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