You know, commandline interfaces were also the “wave” of the past, before there were PC’s or Mac’s. We have a Frenchman to thank for the concept of the command line.

I’d say GUI’s are and will always be nothing but a “ripple”. We have no one to thank for GUI’s. They rob you of power.

The “wave of the future” is people realising the best shells were designed decades ago and distributed for free. The Bourne shell (sh) is and will always be the premier scripting shell. And scripting is where all the power comes from.

Power and user-friendliness are rarely mutually compatible. That’s why “PowerShell” or any other gimmick you encounter will never be as powerful as what was designed decades ago. These gimmicks sacrafice power for “ease of use”- in the interest of getting people to use them. That’s why there are GUI’s. Because few people are interested in computers enough to learn how to use them. If you use these gimmicks you will always be handicapped compared to someone who knows sh.

You don’t have to type long commands. Use aliases. There is so much flexibility in UNIX. Anything is possible. If it doesn’t exist, write it yourself.

I don’t want the computer guessing what I want. The computer is fast, but dumb. I am the boss. I want to tell the computer exactly what I want it to do and then have the computer do it. That’s power.