I use arch btw, and even then with zsh, shell highlighting, annotations, fuzzy finder and vim on steroids, the "hacker way" can be really different from two decades ago.

It doesn't mean that you have to.

It's hard to avoid. I know I can open the GUI file manager to look at a directory, and sometimes I try to force myself to do that, but way too often I quickly open a terminal and type a "ls" command. It's just what I got used to when I first started using computers back in the 1990s, and habits can be hard to break.