In this day and age? Why?

I love messing around with computers. I'm fairly sure (and am constantly reminded by my girlfriend) this makes me a geek. Even with this the case however, I like messing around with computers, cos I like making stuff work. Enter Linux; specifically Fedora Core 6.

I've just purchased a couple of VPS's and am in the process of configuring them. Now I have come a step closer to understanding why some system admins just love windows, and conversely others love Linux; both appear to wear their inequities on their shoulders alongside their respective merits. But it did get me thinking, why in the age of immersive 3DUIs, so called "rich user experiences" and the likes, we are still hacking around at [nigelpepper@fu15437664 ~]$ or C:\> depending on your persuasion.

Are GUIs not meeting their marketing promise of "making things easier". I have certainly felt the pain of missing GUI recently. Don't get me wrong, I like hacking around at the command line; at times however, I just want "it" to work.