I’ve got to say, some Linux people’s fetish for running everything from the command line gets just creepy at times.

I mean things like “why click a button when you could memorize yet another command instead?” pushed to extremes. I don’t want to memorize a text command to play or pause my music, dude.

“Why click a couple of buttons in a GUI when you can instead slowly drive yourself mad trying futilely to remember the proper syntax for a ffmpeg command?”

EDIT: I love providing TWO examples of the command line being an accessibility nightmare, only for people to argue that ackshually, the real accessibility nightmare is not having to type “ffmpeg -ss 01:28:05.035 -to 01:28:14.461 -copyts -i "input.mp4" -ss 01:28:05.035 -to 01:28:14.461 -c:v libx264 -crf 17 -b:v 1M -vf "subtitles=subtitle.srt,scale=-1:320,format=yuv420p" -c:a aac -af "pan=stereo|FL=0.5*FC+0.707*FL+0.707*BL+0.5*LFE|FR=0.5*FC+0.707*FR+0.707*BR+0.5*LFE" -movflags +faststart output.mp4” entirely from memory.

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