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You don't have to, but if you do stuff on terminal and copy and paste the directory paths from terminal to various GUI apps, that'd be the most productive use of Linux imho.
Also cli programs are way more stable than gui apps. UX additionally improves with zsh to the level where most FOSS GUI apps can't match (because they usually lack a UX team).