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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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I always prefer the CLI at work but I wouldn't expect the avg consumer to ever want to deal with it.
There are a lot of things an average consumer don't wa't to deal with, but that's true for windows as much as Linux. The question is not what they want to do, but what they need to do and if it seems difficult.
A command line can also be distributed as a bash script btw. The difference with an obscure executable that will edit the registry on windows it that the bash file can be checked much more easily.