GUI's can be counter productive for theses kind of tool. There are some contexts like "SSL" were the user needs to understand the underlaying concepts a UI cannot teach in itself
I believe they do. Configuration files usually have comments, GUIs typically lack that or documentation. If they do not, you have to look it up somewhere. GUIs could have documentation, but it is very rare I would say. It is something similar with the CLI flags as well. That is just my opinion. Maybe I am the only one who reads manual pages that explain what a CLI flag is supposed to do, or for example what key X means in a configuration file.
I have been taught more by those two, than by GUI. The only thing I could imagine that may teach me through GUI is Smalltalk, but that is very limited. On top of that, GUIs might be less common for whatever reasons as well in the UNIX world.
thfuran|3 years ago
johnisgood|3 years ago
I have been taught more by those two, than by GUI. The only thing I could imagine that may teach me through GUI is Smalltalk, but that is very limited. On top of that, GUIs might be less common for whatever reasons as well in the UNIX world.