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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not believe you used it effectively the first time you saw the program without reading the manual assuming you had not used a similar program before.
With "complicated" I only meant that you have to do some reading before you can use it. It is not just open the program and use it effectively or for hard tasks directly.
People that always want a GUI seem to think that the learning phase always can be eliminated.
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No, I do not think that at all. There most certainly IS a learning curve with a GUI also - I'm just saying that
FOR ME, the learning curve for GUI is a LOT less steep than that for a command line and/or scripting.
Photoshop I picked up nearly instinctively, because I've used graphics manipulation programs for years. But, almost ANY graphical interface is easier for me to pick up than lines of code. I'm a visual learner, I suppose.
As I pointed out earlier.. Everyone is different. What is easy for you is not easy for me, and vice versa, so it's not really productive saying that "you should be able to do this with no trouble" when someone's having trouble with a certain concept.