However, some people with far more experience than I can really make the terminal sing. Such is the case of this Reddit user ...

Please, François, do not cry. What is making you so sad? The restaurant looks fantastic, mon ami. Everything is ready. What could possibly be so bad? Quoi? You were reading the menu and saw that we ...

Ok, so I spent the better part of the night getting my linux set up the way i want it, targeting the really big issues. I figured out the gcc problem i had, fixed staroffice refusing to save documents ...

Back in my early days of Linux, the terminal was a necessity. Now, the GUIs are so advanced, user-friendly, and powerful, that you could go your entire Linux career and never touch a terminal window.