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Yeah, hence why no one uses terminals for doing work with git, codex, claude-code, neovim and curl, everyone and their mother are using desktop GUIs for those things, clearly.


Inversely, plenty of people use GUIs for all of those things.


Yes, I agree, and have no qualms with people who prefer GUIs. But to say that "majority of users (developers?)" prefer GUIs seems outlandish at best.


I am the only person in my 10 person team that prefers the cli for stuff like git and while the ratio was a little more balanced during my time at college, it was still skewed towards GUIs. I don't think its unreasonable to think that developers might prefer GUIs over CLI


Many developers are on Windows, and those tend to prefer GUIs. CLI reliance is mostly a macOS/Linux thing.


I know some window developers use use WSL for all of their devving, and they are obviously gonna be working through the terminal.


I use Jetbrains git pull etc since they dont fail on modified files and other problems.


The ‘vast majority’ using GUIs as mentioned by the parent doesn’t preclude individuals using CLIs.




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