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A lot of things are easier to do even for experts with gui, as you might need to type 30 lines for what you could do in 1-2 clicks
In the 15 years of me using Linux as my main system both for work and for fun, I have never experienced this situation. Never. I seriously don't know what you guys doing that not only requires you to type 30 lines of commands - insane amount of commands, you can setup a complicated server from scratch with this amount if commands - that can also be accomplished with two clicks.
Give me at least couple of examples, I'm very curious
I don't know if this applies but I did the switch to Linux a coupls weeks ago (To Linux Mint, because beginner friendly).
I'm curious with tech stuff but I'm not tech savvy in any way shape or form.
Thing is, the in way to connect to my Google drive sucked hard. On windows I would install the program and be able to access it like any drive. On Mint there is a GUI way to connect to your Google account, but it is so slow that it took a PDF solid 2 minutes to load each page. So no way to work with that.
So I needed a solution, which I found by installing rclone and setting it up.
That was a stupid amount of work and command lines I realy did not understand at all (this was my time using the console).
Yeah, the way Google doesn't make a Linux version of their product is indeed bad. They say it's because they want us all using their web version, and it would be probably even a valid excuse, but they make their soft for Windows, but not for Linux for some reason.
Thankfully they are in minority, and you can just ditch them and use different, more user-friendly clouds. Or, as you mentioned, cool working tools that community made for free, since Google is apparently incapable.
Edit: back to the previous point, you managed to do it first time without help, which kind of confirms my point. There is a Russian proverb "while the eyes are afraid, the hands are already at work", which is very apt here.
Well there is insync, but it costs money. I'd just stick to rclone.
If a GUI can be built which accomplished something in 1-2 clicks, then there's very likely a CLI which can do the same with 1-2 commands, as CLIs are easier to implement than GUIs...