Terminal is no longer pinned to my favorites list.
I think I’ve used a terminal basically every day for the past two decades, but that was usually because it provided the most utility with the least amount of friction to accomplish certain tasks.
But we’ve reached the point where not only is it not necessary to jump to a terminal window for most things, it’s usually a less pleasant experience, and in some cases can even be slower than using a dedicated GUI to accomplish the same task.
The Bazaar application is so fast and reliable, I can do all of my app installation and updates through that, without needing to fall back.
The Parabolic app is great at downloading videos from across the web. I know it still uses yt-dlp on the backend, but it keeps me from manually invoking it from the command line and trying to remember all the various flags to capture the formats I want, plus it makes it incredibly easy to queue up a bunch of downloads at once.
Resources reliably shows me what’s running on my system, and killing misbehaving processes (a rarity in the first place) is quick and easy.
Most of my interactions with git can be done with gitg, which is a bit crusty and using end-of-life runtimes, but I’ve heard whispers that it is going to be revamped and updated to use the latest GTK version and Adwaita libraries later this year. I can limp along until then in its current state. It really does make interacting with git quit a bit easier.
The only reason I’ll need to fallback to a terminal is when locally building versions of our documentation at work, but that’s not an everyday thing.
I love that the free desktop is mature enough to not require interacting with a CLI, even for a (relative) power user.