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Originally Posted by
vich
Purists.
It's not purism. I used to agree with you. I used Mandrake Linux with pure GUI for years -- but I learned
nothing from it, and when it broke down I was helpless.
Most of what you're learning when you "learn shell" isn't shell at all. You're learning the shape of UNIX itself -- where files go, how files work, how paths work, how programs live and die and communicate, how to kill them, where devices are, how to use them, where partitions are, how they work, and how everything is connected together.
Besides, some important configuration files
are scripts.
The GUI is
not the system. UNIX isn't centralized like Windows is. If you don't spend at least a little time learning the fundamentals, it's going to haunt you.