It's only after switching to Linux you realize what all you were missing as a Dev. A package manager, excellent terminal and complete control of your system especially the updates, rock solid depending on the distro and many more. Unless I need to develop for Windows or mac I'm not switching. Long live Linux.

No compromise. Everything just works. No sales model into which your use has to fit, to suit some vendor.

@bahua I'm sorry I didn't get that. Could you elaborate?

@HarleyQuinn

I mean that in commercial desktop operating systems, any system feature is added only under the understanding that deploying and supporting it will support an overall plan to make a profit, whether it's through sales, support, or something else.

With Linux, such a dynamic is almost nonexistent.

Linux: Written by developers for themselves, and to a lesser extent, other users.

That's why it's so amazing for development, and still has a decent user experience for average users.

@Root Credit where credit is due: GNU/Linux*

yarn in under 10 seconds
git commands in under 200ms per commit
live reloading that works consistently
searching the whole! file system in under a minute

I'm sorry if this is offensive to anyone: Not even an OS made by angels is gonna convince me that I've been missing a "terminal" in my life... Graphical UI was invented for a reason!

@hamido-san Not offended at all!
(keep in mind that I'm a server engineer professionally, I always have a drop down terminal close by)

- need to find which config file contains a string in a folder with 100 config files: grep string ./*

- need to do the same as above but then with gzipped rotated logs: zgrep string ./*

- need to know my external ip: curl somewhatsmyipsite.tld

- need to see all file/folder permissions of all directory contents: ls -la /path/to/directory

Stuff like that is many times faster for me through the terminal than through a gui.

@linuxxx because nobody took the time to make a decent gui for them... I rest my case

@hamido-san If you find a way to make a gui which launches faster and takes less time with entering all parameters (these are just examples, sometimes I've got to pipe output to other programs multiple times and sort/format that data in some way as well), let me know.

Oh so it's up to me now, huh?
Like I said, don't wanna offend anyone, let's drop this...

@linuxxx simply put
GUI: Easy of operation
TERMINAL: Power user, can do a lot more extended things

But GUIs aren't bad persee. Listing of searching a file? Terminal for sure.

Going through different folder structures to copy multiple files with different filenames that have almost no common factor in their name: GUI without a doubt. Selecting individual files for copying or transfering is much easier in a GUI as far as I know.
But then again. This is one the only things I could think of.

The keyboard is far faster, more powerful, and more flexible than a pointer-based UI. If you dispute that, you simply don't know what you're talking about.

The pointer has its place, but for basic OS operation, it's an add-on.

@Charmesal In your case I agree but luckily I never have that one. Did you look at the use cases I describeed? (especially the piping to multiple programs)

@linuxxx I did and I don't see any proper way of doing that using a GUI. The terminal is powerful and I couldn't live without it anymore.