As much as I’m not terribly fond of the guy, IIRC he’s 36, which makes ‘88’ likely short for 1988, the year he was born.

Absolutely not. And they can fuck right off with that whole needing an account to use a terminal thing.

Command line is a lot more powerful for a lot of cases. Most CLI programs are written with the idea that the caller might be another program, so they tend to be easy to chain with pipes and redirection. So you have tons of simple tools that you can combine however you need.

Thirded. I send everyone that asks over to Mint until they want to try something different.