This is a great point. I will admit that, in the past, with certain tools that have command line interfaces and GUI interfaces, I have sometimes spent too much time trying to figure out how to do something through the GUI when I could've just done it with one or two terminal commands. But I didn't do it because the command line syntax felt obtuse to me, and I was resistant to learn it. But I would've solved the problem faster if I was not so stubborn (because I usually ended up having to complete the task... by doing it in the terminal anyway). In other words, my "sin" was not that I wasn't already adept at the command line. My "sin" was that I was stubborn and thus, I was working inefficiently.
With nearly any class of problem, I'm not so much concerned with whether you've already memorized how to fix it. I'm much more concerned with whether you know where-and-how to search for the answers (cuz that, in itself, is a skill). Noobs will burn a lotta time randomly clicking through poorly-focused google searches. For seasoned pros, even when they don't already have the solution in mind, they can leverage the internet as something like the 3rd lobe of their brain.
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This is a great point. I will admit that, in the past, with certain tools that have command line interfaces and GUI interfaces, I have sometimes spent too much time trying to figure out how to do something through the GUI when I could've just done it with one or two terminal commands. But I didn't do it because the command line syntax felt obtuse to me, and I was resistant to learn it. But I would've solved the problem faster if I was not so stubborn (because I usually ended up having to complete the task... by doing it in the terminal anyway). In other words, my "sin" was not that I wasn't already adept at the command line. My "sin" was that I was stubborn and thus, I was working inefficiently.
With nearly any class of problem, I'm not so much concerned with whether you've already memorized how to fix it. I'm much more concerned with whether you know where-and-how to search for the answers (cuz that, in itself, is a skill). Noobs will burn a lotta time randomly clicking through poorly-focused google searches. For seasoned pros, even when they don't already have the solution in mind, they can leverage the internet as something like the 3rd lobe of their brain.