cli, but I don't think LQ will work.

I think you hit on one of the TRUE powers of the CLI. Still, even with all that power and efficiency, I as an artist, still have value for a GUI. But I am not inclined to either Microsoft or Apple's way to do it. I have have, however, started to take a liking to KDE's form.

Terminal mostly, gui sometimes

I normally use multiple terminals inside the GUI. I also have a separate 'real' terminal in another virtual console for system administration.

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Both. I like command-line application software such as Lynx and youtube-dl because they use very less system resources. Most of the times I use GUI as I lack knowledge and skill required to work in a terminal.

I prefer working on terminal but my level of knowledge and my daily usage requires GUI.

Terminal for: ffmpeg, apache or partimage!

AS a non-professional computer user, I use terminal only when clearly instructed and find it trouble-free and quick.

Too old to get my head around the terminal though can do some basic work in it. GUI is my best friend.

cli = life

Usually a terminal but some tasks are better in GUI.

Hi there,

GUI mostly, learning terminal

There is no question in my mind that gnome is preferable to command-line only. A picture paints a thousand words and all that. However, one of Linux's enduring strengths is its shells, my personal favourite being bash. The amount one can achieve via scripting is mind blowing. My answer is therefore a resounding "BOTH"

Not sure what you mean actually ... you need a window manager under X to keep things up (not a "desktop environment", I use fvwm), and then in that you open terminal windows (I use xterm or urxvt) to do most of the real work (except of course for things with a native graphics client like a browser, libre office, a pdf viewer, editors - i use THE). Some of those terminal windows can hold remote ssh session to non-local machines.

Sample screenshots at http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~luci...ns/window.html

Here at work I have almost always a ssh session open to another machine which is a db server, and run the mysql/Mariadb line mode client in it.
When at home during the pandemics, I may open three ssh sessions (one to my office machine to read mail there, one to the same to work, invoke editors in remote X etc. and one to the DB machine). Occasionally I use an entire VNC session to the office machine (since the home laptop is memory limited, some applications run better that way).

Use both. Depends on what I want to do, and the mood I'm in.