&quot;Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?&quot;<p>Not really.<p>These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one&#x27;s own experience.<p>Here&#x27;s one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command line was once a &quot;pleb&quot;.<p>Txt&#x27;ing is what its name implies. Typing short lines of text.  (And anticipating a quick response.)  Seems reasonable to make a comparison to using the command line.<p>IRC, or today&#x27;s &quot;chat&quot;, is also arguably similar.  Typing short lines of text, and expecting a quick response.<p>I have wondered about this for years as SMS and later Twitter, and now &quot;enterprise chat&quot;, i.e., typing short lines of text, became popular.<p>But winning a popularity contest for how people interact with a computer is not something that really interests me.<p>My prediction based on last 30 years of computing history is that command line interface is never going to disappear (that is one reason I stick with it).  It is there for whomever may discover and choose to use it.<p>&quot;They don&#x27;t even know what they don&#x27;t know.&quot;<p>Exactly.<p>And yet countless GUI lovers&#x2F;CLI haters continually ask us to believe that some hypothetical user would _choose_ not use a command line interface when they do not even know that such a thing exists; they were never given a real choice.<p>Who cares what other users want to use?  It is their choice, not yours.<p>Give them a choice a see what happens.<p>Experiment.