Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The HORRORS of THE LINUX TERMINAL 🐧💀" video.

  1. A command line can be automated, a GUI cannot. A GUI is designed for humans to use, but that also means that humans are forced to perform all the necessary actions in a GUI -- methods to automate GUI actions has been tried (mouse/keyboard macros), but they tend to be fiddly and unreliable. Whereas it is easy to package command sequences in a script, to make it easy to execute them repeatedly with minimal work. Case in point: the whole concept of cut/copy/paste originated in GUI apps, yet while you can copy/paste command-line sequences in terminal windows, you cannot copy/paste GUI action sequences. Ironic or not?
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