Linux command line applications suffer from a problem. The commands written into the programs are not universal. That means commands from one program to the other conflicts with what you’ve learned. Take for example Audio player X uses ‘n’ to skip a track. That’s not the case for Audio player Y—if you decide to change another music player(Maybe you just need a certain feature in Y).

That’s probably the biggest problem surrounding CLI applications—the programs are just not as intuitive to use. Other than that, not having flash, java… etc doesn’t really drive me away from CLI. Fact is, I’ve learned a lot more about concentration after using command line applications—Just using bash itself taught me quite a bit. There are minimal distraction when you’re typing a document in VI/Emacs when you’re running everything full-screen. You can argue that it can be achieved in X too.

That’s too true, but CLI uses less resource. I can run elinks, Emacs, mpg123, mutt without putting a dent on my ‘pretty old’ P4 1.7GHz with 256 RAM machine. Sure, I can use a light windows manager like fluxbox, wmii; but I’ve gotta used to the command line system.