The difference would be that RMS is extremely well-versed in computer technology. He understands the problems with non-free software.

Someone with his knowledge could choose to disregard those issues for convenience, but Stallman is willing to make great sacrifices.

But now it’s too long for a power user.

Short and Long options are a thing.

Ex: GNU rm can use

--recursive

-r

or

--force

-f

To be fair, that is an issue with the implementation of the given commands, rather than the concept of the command line.

You could create a program that operates like so:

remove-file --dont-ask-for-confirmation house.png

Linux is software.

It doesn’t contain this intrinsic meaning you refer to.

It’s self-explanatory to you because you’re already familiar with the logic, language, conventions. I’m guessing, you grew up with all that from childhood…

This argument can be used as a reason to implement GUIs.

If we wish to market to an audience that has had some basic experience with using Windows and Mac, we can skip some of the reteaching by implementing familiar GUIs

Very simple actually: don’t use 100% transparency.

Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.

You can have both function and form.

We can use dinit, s6, runit, and openrc.

There are more, but these are all top contenders.

I switched to dinit recently, it uses declarative service management (like systemd unit files). Very clean, fast, lightweight, and portable.