Comment Re:So, you're saying you want the CLI to atrophy (Score 3, Insightful) 383
Hairyfeet, back at ya.
I moved to Linux because from Mac OS X *because* of the command line. It is a first place citizen. You can expect almost all programs on it to support commandline options and such.
OSX is based off BSD now, so there are plenty of command tools available to you. All your basic linux commands work in OSX as well as several additional useful OSX command tools that just don't exist elsewhere. I frequently run command line scripts to configure OSX and install numerous pieces of software on several Macs. You can also install Fink, or MacPorts, or Homebrew to install plenty of additional useful software. It's all there if you learn how to use OSX on the command line.
Windows also has a command line, and the vast majority of Windows software can be installed on the command line. There are many useful command line utilities that vastly speed up setup of the a windows system. You could also install cygwin if you really want unix style commands. With powershell, there's less of a need to have cygwin. In a Domain, you can use group policy to manage numerous systems, but that's not available if you're not in a domain. If you manage systems not in a domain, or before you join it to a domain, you can do just about everything on a local trusted network with command line tools in a batch file script or powershell.
Many people think of Windows or OSX as GUI only, or mainly, have never really sat down to find the command line way of doing it because the GUI was always there as a crutch. The GUI was so well done that they never bothered seek out the command line. On linux, the GUI came much, much later. In the beginning, some of the linux GUI, like the early SAMBA config GUI that wiped smb.conf, was quite broken. There's still work to be done with the GUI.
Don't mistake a useful GUI for lack of a command line on OSX or Windows. It's all there and you've just never learned to use it. The linux GUI is not as well designed and still needs more work to get to where Windows and OSX are. That's probably why most linux users are still going to the command line. Eventually, that will change and it will mainly be sysadmins and certain power users that do any command line on linux as well.