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Comment author: Nanashi 15 April 2015 07:55:34PM 3 points [-]

If you are trying to trying to make the world a better place and find yourself pushed aside, shunned, bounced off, etc. you are doing it wrong. Stop blaming the people in the world for your inability to change them.

People can be stupid and stubborn. There are two ways around the problem. You can either convince them to stop being stupid and stubborn, in which case you are a salesperson. Or you can develop a solution that works around the problem, in which case you are an engineer. If you do neither and instead complain about how stubborn and stupid people are, then you are a whiner.

With this issue, the constraint is simple: people use GUIs, not CLIs. Doesn't matter which one is better. It matters which one people use. If you are taking the sales approach to the problem, you can try to convince people to use a CLI insetad of a GUI. If you are taking the engineering approach to the problem, you can try to build a better GUI. If you are taking the whiner's approach to the problem, you can tell people who build GUIs that CLIs are better.