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Slashdot
Coverage of Slashdot in the Nexus archive.
- Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!
The command line is still a valuable tool for many jobs despite the rise of graphical environments, allowing users to precisely tell the computer what they want done using words instead of gestures. The author spends more time interacting with terminal windows than ever before and believes the command line gives users more control. The command line has survived the predicted demise by graphical environments like Windows and AmigaOS.