Haha yeah, that's why I said there's still a long way to go until Joe Average uses it. It's more of an argument for how simple the CLI really is and how Linux highlights its use, encouraging the best tool for a given job. Sometimes the GUI isn't faster or easier, even if it may be more familiar and comfortable just because you're used to it. And even when helping noobs, it's much easier to say "copy and paste this" than give a long list of "click this button halfway down the page third from the right, then scroll down the dropdown list until you see this, then go back to the last screen with the green bars and find the tall box between the two short boxes..."
And you could easily make a batch file in Windows on your desktop that you can double click for the same results, but I'm not as familiar with that.
And you could easily make a batch file in Windows on your desktop that you can double click for the same results, but I'm not as familiar with that.
I'd say that for the average joe, a GUI is the better tool for the job. While a CLI may be more convenient for support reasons, for the same reason it is also more dangerous. Imagine if the noob copied just one option short which usually isn't disastrous but... More critically a social hacker could also use the same convenient to make the user do something irrevocably stupid.
It'll take a much stupid user to follow an instructions that brings up a prompt "Are you sure you want to send so much to this person?", than for one to copy and paste something like "btcsend 10000 -addr 126784FGCAB183 -yes" for an unprompted send.
Thanks for sharing, but real noobs will need a better way to start using BTC securely... Like a GUI with one button where wallet is encrypted and you don't have to learn the word *blockchain* ever 
