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.

…the government is absolutely a threat to you.

I don’t see how this supports your previous claim of: “If you don’t have privacy from the government, you don’t have privacy.”

If you don’t have privacy from the government, you don’t have privacy.

Privacy refers to more than just privacy regarding the government.

Your threat model and situation might mean if the government knows something, its as bad as if every single person knows it.

But this isn’t for everyone.

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

The censorship being referred to here is a legally defined term…

There is no such mention by OP about the legal definition.

Censorship in all the dictionaries I see don’t require it to be a government that is censoring for it to be called “censorship”.

Someone intending to hinder someone else’s ability to reach certain information is engaging in censorship.

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.