Many blind people use the command line on Linux, mainly because the GUI isn’t all that
great with a screen reader. Although web services can be hard to use, especially when
TUI’s with “fancy” use of Unicode box drawing characters make things overly verbose and
complex. But there is this thing where the GUI has all these apps: Thunderbird, SeaMonkey,
Pidgin, where things are easy to set up and configure. Meanwhile, Mutt requires you to
know the server info for your mail accounts and so on.
I’d love to use the CLI much more, but it seems to be built for people that already know
how to use it, especially the packages. So I mainly use a Mac, where the GUI is easy to
use, the Mail client is great, and I just use my phone for chatting.
On Jun 8, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
In another thread, Bob Marcan wrote:
> Seems almost nobody is using the command line.
> GUI for everything.
> I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task.
Well, what follows seems typical enough to be of possible interest.
I've been around long enough to know only too well that the CLI is
preferable when feasible. The problem is remembering the commands, to the
point where your fingers know them. I began with a prodigious memory, and
ran it flat out for decades; so now in old age it's way full.
But visual spatial memory, fortunately, seems to occupy a
different register. It's slower and less sharp. To answer what I has
clicked on, I was not able to rattle off a list, but had to go back and
reconstruct it -- including recovering a couple times from errors. But I
got there. The first false fork with the CLI'd've lost me.
--
Beartooth Implacable, Double Retiree
Historian of Tongues from Way Back
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