
It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the merits of the command line, in an age where things like streaming video and Aqua are an integral part of our daily life. However, I do not think that typed-in commands must necessarily be consigned to the dustbin of computer history. Of course, I am not suggesting that we all drop X and Windows and pretend like we are living in the early eighties. The command line interface still has much to offer us, and many of its benefits simply cannot physically be emulated or even replaced by graphical ones.
Days after I installed Linux on my dual-boot machine, my wife said that I spent too much time in the terminal :-)))
Even though my Redhat box booted with graphical interface, most of the time I was sitting with a Gnome or KDE terminal.