Recently I've been really intrigued by node.js. It has been a freaking pain to get an instance up and running. Joyent? make a curl command line post(That doesn't seem to work). Git? Issue yourself a key via command line. Finally I get into duo stack and then I get a guide with about 25 steps of command line commands.
It is 2011. WTF? Back around the turn of the century we used to have these things called installers that would keep people from having to do the same damn thing over and over and over. Or type. We create these great clickable symbols that were organized into hierarchies that were great for both teaching by way of layout and for getting things done. I think we called them menus.
I've done some digging around and found this insightful post about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407278
...but you know what? I call phooey. As much as it is great that you can mix and match at the command line, a picture is still worth a thousand words.
So tell me hn, what am I missing. Am I fooling my self calling my self a hacker if I use gitgui? (three click and I see exactly what is going where...why is typing 5-6 equivalent lines into the command line better?)