I built a service whose primary client is a CLI program. I was thinking about building that client for Windows as well (not just WSL). My target users are generally technically-proficient so I’d rather not build a whole GUI app if it’s unnecessary. But I honestly have no idea how often Windows users use CLI tools beyond some Windows admin stuff.
So if Windows is your daily driver, how often do you leverage the shell and how unusual would it be to use CLI tools in your workflows?
How often do I, personally, open the shell to enter my own commands? Almost never. If it’s something I would need to repeat, I’d make a BAT file for it and have it run at startup.
How often do I run programs that are entirely in the command line? Fairly often depending on what I am doing. Plenty of apps I run are command-line only. Especially any kind of conversion or encoding tool.