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As other’s have said, have a goal. A computer is a tool, use it to accomplish something, try to get something working for yourself that currently doesn’t. If your PC aleady does everything you need it to, great, you’re ahead of everyone else 😅.

Don’t think of the command line as a good option, it’s archaic, and its capabilities are objectively rudimentary, it’s just often the least bad option because no one has made a convenient GUI for what you’re trying to do (or if they have, they did it poorly, and somehow the command line is still less bad). So you will inevitably have to interact with it.

I think it’s the opposite, GUIs are often convoluted and rudimental compared to the power of the terminal. The terminal can be very sophsticated.

Just because it’s how we used to do things in the past it doesn’t mean it’s archaic, quite the opposite it’s a very powerful and useful tool that no GUI can ever possibly match, in fact generally GUIs are either for noobs (and I don’t mean this in a derogatory way) and/or convenience, but you can’t really match the ease of automating, power, and freedom a terminal provides when in the hands of someone who understands what they’re doing.

@EuroNutellaMan @teawrecks 100% agree , terminal is the king of computing. GUIs are convenient, sure. However, when I am writing software to do computation, I am definitely not wanting to run it in an environment with a GUI. I want every speck of resources free for my program. It's easier to write scripts as well expressing the algorithm in my head than it is for me to coordinate settings on a GUI or keyboard inputs.

🏳️‍🌈🜏Technomancer🜏🏳️‍🌈

@EuroNutellaMan @teawrecks 2/ I think in Windows Server 2019, they went back to allowing for pure commandline OSes. I am sure that has always been the case before it, or maybe the desktop could be disabled in previous installations. But, why waste resources of a desktop environment for server operations.