This may well be a good thing

Posted Dec 7, 2023 13:18 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: This may well be a good thing by elenril
Parent article: A schism in the OpenPGP world

> Seems to me gpg is actually standing in the way of widespread email encryption by being utterly incomprehensible and unusable for non-experts.

When it comes to email, non-experts, just like experts, will interact with gpg via their email client, which provides all the functionality they will need. If the email's client UI is obtuse and unusable by non-experts, that's a problem with the client (or a fundamental property of [Open]PGP), not gpg itself.

(I can't remember the last time I used gpg on the command line for anything other than key creation, and even that was many, many years ago)