Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Is the terminal still worth learning?" video.

To an extent that's the sort of environment that the commandline was originally intended for. Early on, most people didn't have direct access to the computer, so much of it would be over a dumb terminal to the mainframe.
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IMHO, automation, is arguably the biggest advantage of the CLI. You can automate just about anything that has a CLI option with any language that you want to use, although Bash and PowerShell are probably the most popular choices due to just being on a bunch of computers already.
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Yes, although the DOS commandline was a lot less fully-featured as it needed to run on computers with far fewer resources than the ones that Unix was designed for. DOS was expanded over the years as new versions came out with newer computers being available, but it was never as powerful as the OSes that started out in academic institutions.
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These days, it's probably more common than you'd think. There are GUIs out there to handle basically any common task.
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That used to be the case, but it's been getting worse over the last 10-20 years. The commandline is plenty discoverable and all tools have some way of printing out every possible commandline argument. The hard part of the commandline is creatively thinking about how to combine different commands to do things.
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Keep in mind that there are only 5 places on a monitor that you can hit with a mouse without looking. The 4 corners and wherever the mouse is already located. With a keyboard, you've got 9 without even moving any fingers.
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@WillKemp To an extent that may have had some validity 20 years ago do to survivorship bias, these days, modern Linux distros are at least as easy to use as Windows is.
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It's worth noting, that you don't need to use a script to simply prepend a date onto a bunch of files. You can use sed, awk and xargs to do that. ls -d \. | awk '{print $0," 20240922"$1}' | xargs mv should add the date, as of this posting, to every single file in a folder. If you add grep, you can do a more granular approach and not hit all of the files.
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@VeronicaExplains Yes, although the wonderful thing about the CLI is that you can use pretty much any language you like. Bash is popular in large part because it's already on most Linux systems in the same way that Basic was usual an option for Windows and how most modern Windows versions have powershell easily available.
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@MrBearyMcBearface The usual way people come to appreciate the terminal these days is starting with things like that and seeing the cool stuff that can be incrementally added.
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IMHO, the best GUI applications are basically just interfaces for commandline programs that simply put the necessary command together for you, so that you're not dealing with a super long command to type out, but can if you want to, or choose to save it for use again. Handbrake is kind of nice because it allows you to export the settings for use in the terminal or just use again in the future. That's super nice for things like TV series where you might not want to waste the space of storing the episode on your computer when you aren't planning on watching it again for another year and can just quickly tell it to do the conversion again while you do other things without reconfiguring things.
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