I first learned Unix in school from a classic GUI-hating Unix veteran, and my line of thought was typical of anyone who had grown up on DOS and Windows. "What a pain. This is so archaic. Why do I have to bother with this?" Eventually, though, it started to fascinate me. It was like I was truly learning to use a computer for the first time. Maybe it was just the geeky hacker feel of scrolling white text on a black background. When I was taking Windows Server courses a couple semesters later, I was really beginning to miss the simple flexibility of a command prompt; now that I had experienced the alternative of pumping a mouse cursor through an endless torrent of snap-ins and pop-up menus. When I first started tinkering with various Linux distros around the same time, there was no turning back. I still had a graphical interface which a lot of things obviously require, but any time I needed to I could open a terminal and interact with the system directly. I was enthusiastic about Powershell when it first came around, but got turned off of it pretty quick. Even if MS didn't change the freaking syntax with every service pack, it just isn't the same.