Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
It seems like a relic of days gone by. Why would anyone want to interact with their computer using just a terminal and a keyboard? Aren’t mice great? Don’t we all want to point and click? Is the GUI a major step forward? Well, sometimes. But the command line remains a more powerful way to access your computer. Learn it—you won’t regret that you did.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
It seems like a relic of days gone by. Why would anyone want to interact with their computer using just a terminal and a keyboard? Aren’t mice great? Don’t we all want to point and click? Is the GUI a major step forward? Well, sometimes. But the command line remains a more powerful way to access your computer. Learn it—you won’t regret that you did.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
