> The terminal offers no help at all to a casual user (the funniest case of this is watching a new user trying to quit vim [0]).
I think that's because casual users did not learn how to look at a terminal. If you start `vim`, it shows you a few lines that say "type :help for help". The help starts with "how to move around" and "how to quit". But people ignore that.
One could say "people don't ignore it, it's just not intuitive". But I have seen many casual users struggle with GUIs, too. The difference, IMO, is just that they learned the basics of GUIs, and never had to learn the basics of CLI. I don't really believe in something fundamentally harder with CLIs.
I think that's because casual users did not learn how to look at a terminal. If you start `vim`, it shows you a few lines that say "type :help for help". The help starts with "how to move around" and "how to quit". But people ignore that.
One could say "people don't ignore it, it's just not intuitive". But I have seen many casual users struggle with GUIs, too. The difference, IMO, is just that they learned the basics of GUIs, and never had to learn the basics of CLI. I don't really believe in something fundamentally harder with CLIs.