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Lots of things don't have a GUI, if we expect users to eat up the CLI, the year of the Linux desktop will never come.
Idk if this is really true, I don't what situations you need to use the command line in Ubuntu or Fedora that would affect more than 10% of users max. You install packages through the store, wifi can be managed through the gui, external drives mount automatically. Imo this should cover the use case for almost everyone.
Things you can't do with a GUI:
I'm an Arch user, so I'll talk about it below:
3rd party crap:
Props to:
The firewall thing is definitely a major oversight.
I think gnome is almost there tbh, has all the things you'd expect of a normal computer
Can't be expected to go full windows where literally every little buried system feature has a GUI on it
Think anyone who wants to use Linux for their non-techy day to day for the most part can now, I think only problem is with moderately techy people who want to do weird stuff with their machines but don't know Linux well enough