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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
The CLI was my friend back when I lived in Linux, and I loved what it empowered me to do. The versatility of keyboard-based gems like GNU Emacs, and even wannabes like vi(m) was and is great. Until one's hands decide that they'd rather not pay full attention to what one's brain asks them to do. When choosing distros to try in VMs, I skipped Arch after reading that its installation was very cli-dependent. Typos in an installation process definitely suboptimal. That's an example of the sort of accesiibility problem Linux has.
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To me, the CLI (and shell scripts) are one of the main draws of Linux. It's faster and more efficient than the GUI. And I like not having to use the mouse.
But my father has been using Linux Mint for about nine years now and he almost NEVER uses the CLI. So maybe your issue was with your choice of distributions, not Linux in general. Arch is known as a very "hands-on" distribution. There are many other Linux distributions that aren't Arch. Manjaro is an Arch derivative — "Arch made for simple" (for example). Lots of choice in Linux. I use Linux Mint because it's simple to use and the Ubuntu (and Debian) repositories are huge.