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I used to be of this opinion. Now I think more “GUIs are great once you’ve mastered the CLI and know what underlying operations you want to execute”. A GUI I discovered recently that I really like is docker-desktop. I used to do everything from the CLI. The gui gives me a much better overview of everything. If I need to dive in to the CLI, I know exactly where to go.

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The problem is that when you need to perform a task on some data being rendered by the GUI that is not supported by the GUI. Usually bulk tasks. Like, for all your docker containers, run a certain command.

A compromise is that GUIs should print the commands that can be run to get the output they are rendering and to perform the actions they are doing. Like a little command palette at the bottom of the window.

Then the user can always break out into terminal.

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