The command line has the advantage of presenting portable, terse and editable instructions that can be cobbled together into a recipe which can be abstracted and automated.
It's a very powerful interface.
It's a very powerful interface.
Any "recipe" you're getting is likely something you get from a web page to begin with. That can be a tool for composition and automation on it own.
Not necessarily. Distro package maintainers use and construct recipes that are not web pages, in order to allow folks to install complex software with, in many cases, one click.