Hi,

A useful guide for cli users; Informative guide to useful Linux shortcuts
The author's opening statement is not necessarily true, it can be a advantage for admin to use the cli since you will be doing absolute commands vs a GUI tool. Myself, I prefer the cli since you will be performing the command directly without anything but the terminal to accomplish tasks. Not saying all task must be performed via the cli but at times a GUI to perform a task(s) can be visually assisting a user to perform certain functions/tasks. I believe that the less barriers to a admin the better the task(s) to be accomplished with nothing in the background.


So if you are comfortable with the author of a GUI performing a function/task then each to it's own way of doing things. That is why Gnu/Linux continues to be popular, in that you as a user can do things your way.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

Interestingly, I see many Linux users post things that make it obvious they've only done GUI and are afraid of CLI. On the flip side Microsoft is suggesting to server admins on their stuff to rely more on CLI than GUI and don't even enable it by default on Windows 2016 any longer.

I began learning on CLI with DOS and later with Text menus on Novell so moving to CLI on UNIX was a natural for me. Many folks however, start on MS Windows workstations/laptops (or Apple) these days so are more comfortable in the GUI.

CLI is definitely the way to go to get full control. GUIs by and large pick the things they'll let you do from a subset of all that you could do with the equivalent command line flags.

Hi,

I totally agree! Once a user learns the shell along with commands there is nothing stopping performance. GUI you do not always know what is going on since the author sets thing to get to final product/goal thus not to worry about what/should be presented to the user. Not everything should be done via GUI, once you learn the shell along with commands then you have that tiger by the tail.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

+2 for CLI. You'll note that I often post from a Windows PC, although I have Linux desktops and a laptop here, and a Linux server out in the world. I seldom toggle to the Linux desktops here and manage them via ssh and the CLI. (The real-world server is headless).