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Absolutely no one ever has been shown to be more productive because they don’t use GUIs. It’s kind of preposterous to think that could be true.

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That's a weird thing to say. GUI slows down me A LOT when I sometimes have to switch to it from my terminal for whatever reason. Where did you get your "absolutely no one" data point?

You should read again what I said. Do you think that simply using GUIs makes anyone less productive? You can’t think of any cases where a GUI is definitely better for a task than a terminal? If you think that , consider why the vast majority of people are using GUIs for everything, and only a tiny minority is using terminals for everything. It’s ridiculous, yes, to imagine you would be more productive if no GUIs existed (you just misunderstood my point).

I reread your original comment. It would have been better if you had included those small details that, for some reason, you left out. In my opinion, you simply failed to get your point across.

Anyway, my point stands. "Absolutely no one" without any context makes no sense whatsoever. There are a number of tasks that are much, much more efficient to perform in the terminal than in a graphical interface. So no, I didn't misunderstand your point - you're just wrong.

> any cases where a GUI is definitely better

Sure I can. Not all of them are though. So be careful with exaggerations.

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