Well, it works well for some people.
Once you get used to it, it can be a dang powerful tool. For people doing a lot of config-wrangling on the CLI (i.e. admins working a lot ovet SSH), overcoming the learning curve will pay dividends.
If you’re working mostly locally and in a GUI environment environment, it’s probably not worth it - there’s a reason most devs use more specialized IDE’s.
Midnight Commander has been around for ages. It’s a straight ripoff/homage to the original Norton Commander, a full-fledged file manager and a godsend on week-kneed machines (like old netbooks).
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
This was actually what got me hooked during university.
Had to plot about 40 txt files of measurement data, was not looking forward to do it one by one with the GUI-based tool I had.
StudyBuddy: “Do you have a Linux on this Laptop”?
Me: “Yeah, set up dual boot a while ago, never really wound up using it.”
StudyBuddy: Boots up Linux, installs gnuplot, types in a one liner.
Computer: Brrrrt. Here’s your 40 plots.
Me: “Okay, I’ve got to start looking into this.”
Anyone who hits enter on a dd command without triple-checking it gets exactly what they deserve.