rscarlat, I'm at the CLI daily.. did I mention that this was on winXP?
Turns out, even with the mighty and unshakable Windows, the command line is far faster than the pointy-clicky to do things. Even with the minimal packaged cmd, it out performs hunting for icons. One example case for you but I'll admit that it's not a dumb user task (we're trying to make things simple for simple people here right?):
I open a cli terminal with administrator rights while remaining under my regular user account. I get access to all my user apps plus I can run apps with admin rights easly. It's much faster to cd to "program files\cain" and "start cain.exe" then move on to the next task.
Ok, another example; iptables full functionality is so very much faster at the cmd than similar GUI tools.
I'm perhaps not the best judge though what with administrating unix servers purely by cli.. and this will really bend your noodle.. with no X/WM installed at all.
Now, if Linux is such a little toy then, how is it that the world's fastest super computers dare to use it? Those crazy clusters must just be children's toys obviously.
Doesn't SAP run well on Unix? Wouldn't it be neet to get that same kind of low resource efficient OS layer between SAP and hardware without the obsurd license fees charged by AT&T or Sun? Ah.. your in IT, you're probably not interested in reducing your costs if it means learning something new.
(Edit); You clarify your point later in the thread and with that point, I can agree. The existance of a command line alone does not make an OS better though some OS have better command lines available. Also, it's what the admin can do with the system which is where knowing more than one or two systems at an administrative level becomes a huge strength.
