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The cli has one other benefit which I think is rarely recognised: it's pretty easy to tell someone you need to run "xyz -a -b -c" (bringing the safety risk with it to be fair), but it gets a lot harder to be like "so in the top left there is a cog button that opens a panel on the right where you're looking for the 2nd tab and there'll be a checkbox".
The things I appreciate even more than a good gui are programs with a good gui and a cli.
A well documented CLI is easy to generate a GUI from.
Wait what?
Most screen recording programs are actually just ffmpeg in the back.
And dude has changed icon set, so its not a cog, its a wrench and screw driver
It is very easy to tell someone type this and shut up. I've never seen an explanation of why -a -b and -c are necessary or what they do. Although I recognise that a lot of people just want magic, and running "xyz -a -b -c" is the next best thing.
I would love to see what cli commands the gui uses, they would be much easier and faster to learn.
That's one of the things I like about yt-dlp-nis on android. You can select all the options you want through the UI and grab the resulting yt-dlp cli command.
man xyz | grep -E "^ *\-(a|b|c)"More cryptic commands to the rescue! Lol
alternatively try tldr, which lists the most common options and explains them. It's a livesaver for noobs.
Edit: oh i see it was already recommended lol
A decent number of modern TUIs do that, lazygit for example. I also find that tldr and navi do a great job of explaining those inscrutable options.
As the other comment says, use TLDR. it doesn't tell you everything, but it does usually explain the most common uses. If you need something more advanced than you need to do more research anyway.
Good UX is the best, whether that's CLI or GUI. UX is under-appreciated.