If I want a shell, I right click a folder location and open a terminal at location. I added the shortcut to the services menu on my macOS machine.
I move files based on size and extension and date ranges. One example would be moving 10 of the the largest video files of various formats, bigger than 150mb, created at least 2 weeks ago, that don't have digits in the name to my secondary hard drive. I am so much faster Ctrl/Command + click/drag instead of command line, especially when I don't know the exact names. In this case imagine the name format is YYYYMMDD[project][camera][resolution][description].[codec], which feels like a nightmare to manage with a terminal.
Windows explorer is set up with custom shortcuts for things like move all files to parent directory and delete folder, delete empty folders in directory, modify created date/other metadata to name some frequent operations. I use QTtabbar on windows for those. It also gives me the double click to move to parent directory shortcut, macOS has a keyboard shortcut for that built-in. Another valuable thing to me is the open with context menu that shows up. I know I can set up ailiases, but I have so many programs that I feel like it would be too many to remember. Tab completion doesn't work efficiently when tens to hundreds of files have the same prefix, for example dates when I'm working on a specific project.
I know I am a power user, but that's also why I feel comfortable asserting gui is better. I even have some nice macros setup using autohotkey for repetitive rename + sorting. Path strings are so useful for file redirecting and management with regex.
I move files based on size and extension and date ranges. One example would be moving 10 of the the largest video files of various formats, bigger than 150mb, created at least 2 weeks ago, that don't have digits in the name to my secondary hard drive. I am so much faster Ctrl/Command + click/drag instead of command line, especially when I don't know the exact names. In this case imagine the name format is YYYYMMDD[project][camera][resolution][description].[codec], which feels like a nightmare to manage with a terminal.
Windows explorer is set up with custom shortcuts for things like move all files to parent directory and delete folder, delete empty folders in directory, modify created date/other metadata to name some frequent operations. I use QTtabbar on windows for those. It also gives me the double click to move to parent directory shortcut, macOS has a keyboard shortcut for that built-in. Another valuable thing to me is the open with context menu that shows up. I know I can set up ailiases, but I have so many programs that I feel like it would be too many to remember. Tab completion doesn't work efficiently when tens to hundreds of files have the same prefix, for example dates when I'm working on a specific project.
I know I am a power user, but that's also why I feel comfortable asserting gui is better. I even have some nice macros setup using autohotkey for repetitive rename + sorting. Path strings are so useful for file redirecting and management with regex.