I started using PCs in the dark ages of CP/M and DOS, so I got familiar with using a command line pretty early. After that, I worked on mainframe systems and UNIX/Linux systems and got even more familiar with shell commands. So I still use the command-line tool in Windows occasionally.
Although the Windows GUI has gotten easier to use over the years, sometimes it's faster just to bring up a command window and type a short command to find something out. As this article points out, this is especially true for network information with commands like ipconfig and netstat.
If you want more than the commands shown in the article, you can always install the Windows Subsystem Layer for Linux and get access to a full Linux command shell, which is more powerful than the Windows command-line interface.
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