See, some of us that were already into computers when Sun was a startup got bored of it.
Your answer is a typical example of UNIX CLI users that need to express themselves as being more intelligent than GUI users, while forgetting that some us do have enough CLI experience and decided to grew out of it.
I can use macros and key + mouse combos in FPS style across many GUI applications and if I ever need a CLI, Powershell or Terminal (Mac OS X) are just a click away.
Mouse use has a much higher risk of CTS and other work-related injuries. [1]
I've worked at startups and enterprise environments, and what has always remained constant at every Microsoft/Enterprise company is the troves of obese, unhealthy, arthritic middle-managers that can barely use a computer anymore because they got lazy and succumbed to using GUIs to get their basic work done.
Now, they are stuck on MS because any foreign GUI elicits a sudden "NOPE!" from them. They are constantly unhealthy because none of them have standing desks. They don't have standing desks because mouse use is extremely non-intuitive in such setups and in many cases dangerous [2].
By surrendering to the mouse and the GUI, my older co-workers are low-quality producers, exceedingly lazy, and otherwise slowly dying.
My console emulator has looked the same for the last ten years. I can SSH into any UNIX system and it's familiar to me. Innovation hasn't slowed me down at all.
> Yep that says it all. Hardly the example of what innovation means.
It appears you fundamentally misunderstood my point. Though innovation has occurred on my Linux system (and on my MS system) without fail for years, I haven't hard to learn bizarre new mouse movements and locations of menu items. Rather than slow me down, I can begin taking ADVANTAGE of innovations right away because they aren't implemented on CLI interfaces in a detestably-arbitrary manner.
Also, I don't get your first point. If people got unhealthy and unemployable due to something OTHER than the mouse and GUI usage, then so what? That doesn't negate my point at all. It simply shows that yes, more than one cause exists for obesity and brain rot.
It's been shown through years and years of clinical study that the injuries received at the modern office have to do with the movements associated with mouse usage. Keyboard use is easy to adapt safely to the modern healthy workplace (standing desks, padded surfaces for wrists and feet, etc.) Mouse use, on the other hand, barely works correctly for the seated and unhealthy worker, and works even less properly for the worker trying to make healthy changes.
Your answer is a typical example of UNIX CLI users that need to express themselves as being more intelligent than GUI users, while forgetting that some us do have enough CLI experience and decided to grew out of it.
I can use macros and key + mouse combos in FPS style across many GUI applications and if I ever need a CLI, Powershell or Terminal (Mac OS X) are just a click away.