About non-visual stuff I can simply answer that I am more productive with a shell, R, ggplot2 and python than with excel, just because I know this better. This is my stack along with matlab and mathematica in the bank where I work now, both basically at cli level. The majority of people in my division uses excel.
I also think of things in an every unix way in my using of computers largely because of 15 years of using unix like systems, it's the same when I need to code more than a couple of lines and do not have vim, for me the brain became too much used to it, I believe this will be the case for many people in HN.
I also think of things in an every unix way in my using of computers largely because of 15 years of using unix like systems, it's the same when I need to code more than a couple of lines and do not have vim, for me the brain became too much used to it, I believe this will be the case for many people in HN.