
If the beginner asks how to do something in Windows, they get instructions on how to use the GUI because there is no other way to do it. So when beginners ask how to do stuff in Linux, the community gives them terminal commands because that's just what's easier to describe. It's valid to give someone just a wall of commands and it totally works, but it doesn't work so well when describing how to navigate a GUI. The second one is twice as many words and you have to write it in prose.

Select the latest version of the NVIDIA driver under the section for your graphics card that is marked "tested, proprietary", then click Apply. Open Software and Updates, go to the "Additional Drivers" tab. Run sudo apt install nvidia-driver-510 in the terminal and restart your computer when it's done So when you're writing instructions to a beginner describing how to do something, you're obviously going to say: The terminal is powerful enough to do anything a GUI can. When you are describing to someone how to do something, you are forced to describe how to do it In the GUI. Until recently you couldn't install software using it (pls daddy Microsoft make winget at least as good as Chocolately while you're at it) and most other core system utilities don't use it. It was a text input prompt and not much more.

Windows Terminal and PowerShell are decent but old habits die hard. Maybe not "better" in terms of design, but definitely "more useful".Įverything on Windows is built for the GUI, and Command Prompt sucked ass.
