“Simplicity is power.”
Do you know how complicated it is to build a user interface? To build an iOS app, for example, I have to download several gigabytes of libraries and resources to be able to make your "simple" drag and drop interface possible. Even for something you see as simple like a website, even one as simple as this:
% html <!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>A Simple Page That Does Nothing</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <h1>My Title</h1> <p>My content that has no interaction and stuff and stuff.</p> </body> </html> %
Requires quite a bit of non-user-friendly html to make possible plus a ton of code that you don't understand (most of which I, a programmer, don't understand).
“So you are talking about internet users and not Linux users...”
I'm talking about the platform of the internet that makes your home server (or any server for that matter) even usable. Sorry, I may not have expressed myself properly. The internet is built on Linux, Linux with no GUI because with most server setups a GUI is just a waste of resources when you have several million requests per second pounding on your front end balancing proxy and several million more requests per second and a result trying to take your database down.
From your point of view I can understand the complaint against the command line because you want to set up your server and go, you want it to be easy to understand to tinker with, but that doesn't make sense in a professional standpoint where ease of use (from an administrative point of view) takes a back seat to performance and getting as much out of your machines as possible.
