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What if you have 1000 jpegs you want to convert into gifs? In windows, you would be clicking 5000 times.

No. Just because *you* would be clicking 5000 times doesn't mean you have to.

1. There are a lot of image programs with batch modes, and you can throw in other options while you are at it (color correction, etc)
2. You could do it pretty trivially with a batch file.
3. You could write a little Perl script (with Image::Magick or similar). - My preferred method cause the result works (if you are careful) with Linux & Windows.

-paridel

1. There are a lot of image programs with batch modes, and you can throw in other options while you are at it (color correction, etc)

So you buy windows so that you can get other programs to do what you might need. So I have an old album of gifs I want to convert, I have to go out and buy something to do it?

2. You could do it pretty trivially with a batch file.

Because if the Linux command line is too much for a user, they will have no problem writing windows batch scripts (/sarcasm)

3. You could write a little Perl script (with Image::Magick or similar). - My preferred method cause the result works (if you are careful) with Linux & Windows.

Again, this requires you are able to write a perl script, if you can do this you are smart enough to Gnome...

The point of the OP was the the GUI more often than not makes things difficult, faster maybe, shorter learning curve probably, but in the end more of a pain..