I would use the terminal for a simple video conversion such as
But I would probably use a GUI for a more complex conversion such as

I use both, but tend to work in terminals, probably because I started computers using DOS, & Linux at the command line, at a time when getting a GUI working was a job in itself.

Hi,

I rely mostly on the tty and use a GUI/DE when working online. Most of my work has been mostly using the best tool for the job. 'cli' does what I tell it it to do while a 'GUI' tends to complete as the author has composed it to do.

Have fun & enjoy!

Both.

I used computers for years without a GUI: CP/M, DOS, QDOS, even a bit of OS9. When GUIs came in, I heaved a sigh of relief. I've used the terminal just once this week, to turn off SEL while printing (Samsungs don't like it).

Like astrogeek, except:

I use alpine for email, and most HTML mail goes to quarantine. If you do, in fact, have some photo or video to send me - send a link, don't embed it in the email...

A lot of stuff is easier and more fun in a terminal. I always prefer text mode over cludgy gui's

Second this. I am terrible at bash scripts and making terminal do magic for me and honestly my server is just to save hosting expenses where I am located and at the moment does not provide a real income stream.

I like using the gui to spin up kvm and to just get into the vm. But once we are in the vm, they are all just minimal installs.

So horses for courses. I get pretty annoyed at clickety click to find some silly file. For me the best thing about terminal is tab completion and the fact that it is easy to do something recursively. I would probably be a gui junky if I can just get those two things to work perfectly for me in gui.

Oh that and when not at the server I am stuck with vpn and ssh on my phone. Not pretty for gui type stuff.

I vote give me a gui, but I am not gonna complain about terminal, and don't think about taking it away. I got too many itches to scratch with it still. But first gotta get my head around that hell hound of a systemd that rattled my cage beyond comfort.

I use both depending on the task. GUI is convenient sometimes, but terminal is often quicker and easier.

Midnight Commander works in a terminal. Therefore, I work in a terminal.

Really depends on the task or if something is broken. For example, right now I can't make any new filesystems via GNOME Disks (just crashes). cfdisk and mkfs.ext4 it is.

Also, for some reason launching Minecraft is a little tricky via the GUI, so I normally run that from the CLI.

As has been said so many times, Both. I may not be the penultimate hacker, but I have to use what seems to be best for the task at hand.

GUI, definitely.

Commando line all the way baby!

I don't trust GUIs...

EDIT: Apart from Firefox; I tried edbrowse for a while but I drifted back to FF eventually.

A factor in favour of the terminal is ease of semi-automation and efficiency of documentation.

Procedures can be documented in a WIKI and copy+pasted to the terminal.

Actions (including illustrative diffs) can be copy+pasted from terminal to issue tracker (screen shots are slower and use more storage),