10 randomly sampled adults, nevermind parents. My partner is an educated person who works on a computer all day and I think she would have a panic attack if I asked her to do something on a command prompt
What are the tools my "non command line fluent parents" could/would want to use that don't already have a human crafted GUI ? This lib, as smart as I think it is, doesn't create "simplicity" from a void.
Never in the last two decades did I encountered a "parents" usage where any CLI tool were needed to do some work. Yes it did happen that I had to use them to repair things. But having auto-generated GUIs on these tools wouldn't change anything about the lack of understanding of what it is, why it's needed and what it does.
If we are talking about generating GUIs for complex production tools like ffmpeg, tar, git ... there already are plenty of wonderful and less wonderful frontends that a auto generated GUI could never beat.
But I'm not saying this tool is not nice. Just I think it's targeted at power users that don't want to open a terminal. It's not a lot, but it's something.
> GUIs for complex production tools like ffmpeg, tar, git ... there already are plenty of wonderful and less wonderful frontends that a auto generated GUI could never beat.
My 12 year old is doing a fair bit of video work, and I just pointed him at Handbrake to get his submission file size down. It's an amazing bit of software, apart from that malware issue back in 2017...
