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That's 30 years of using closed source software from strangers (Or do you have many good friends at Redmond WA USA ?) :-)
Maybe decades ago it was. Nowadays that's not a requirement as there's GUI applications for a lot more things than before. And as a Linux user I simply find it much more convenient and faster to share some commands with another person than making screen shots and creating a howto of a few pages or making a video. Also documentation has improved. For the average Linux user the Arch Linux wiki is a nice resource, even when not using Arch Linux.
...ok?
I don't understand.
No it still is. Look up any software for Linux. There will be links to download the software for Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and if there is a Linux version it will just put the command and not even explain what it is or what to do with it, because they just assume if you're using Linux that you're familiar with the terminal.
Do a web search for "how to in Linux" and tell me it doesn't send you into the terminal to do it.
Websites offer that but you can usually find those in your favorite package manager Downloading software from shady websites is the Windows way of doing things.
Now, to be clear: this discussion is about having to use the terminal and that's what people answered. You still find so many resources referring to the terminal because it's often just the most convenient and effective way to do something.
I certainly prefer it over clicking through settings or running dedicated tools to do something that could be solved by a single line. And I was an exclusive Windows user like 5 years ago.
Most of the time the only thing you'll find in package managers for mainstream software is unofficial, and many times broken.
Then...don't do that? Go to the official source of the software? It's not like Google or Apple repositories aren't regularly packed with malware pretending to be something they're not...
Funnylie enough, if im not doing programmer/networking stuff, there are only 3 reasons to open a terminal