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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
