Given the choice, I would have gone back to DOS years ago. Programs could be easily entered by typing a simple command line or by going through a menu. GUI's are an illiterate's method of operating a system.

...and if all I wanted to do was work and run programs, that would be fine, but GUIs are what makes it FUN!...My wife did mainframes and DOS for many years, and I never wanted to look at it...all those command structures and asterisks and backslashes were intimidating and BORING...now I can 'see' things...and visualize relationships in data much better.

There are those who take to DOS really easily, like there are those who do math...but others do not...what we need is for those who write Windows and such to QUIT making it totally new every couple years and de-bug and polish what we have!...and that, sort of, is what the Linux people are doing. Maybe in 5-6 years, it will be ready for prime time!