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"*Always add a commandline interface to your software. Graphical User interfaces are for sissies.*" --[bitreich](bitreich.md) manifesto
Graphical user interface (GUI) is a visual [user interface](ui.md) that uses graphics such as images and geometrical shapes. This stands in contrast with [text user interface](tui.md) (TUI) which is also visual but only uses text for communication.
Graphical user interface (GUI) is a visual [user interface](ui.md) that uses graphical elements such as images, many distinct [colors](color.md) and fine geometrical shapes. This stands in contrast with [text user interface](tui.md) (TUI) which is also visual but only uses text for communication (TUI can further be pure line-based [command line interface](cli.md) or a graphical, grid-based text interface that mimics a true GUI, e.g. with [ASCII art](ascii_art.md)).
Expert computer users normally frown upon GUI because it is the "noobish", inefficient, limiting, cumbersome, hard to automate way of interacting with computer. GUI brings [complexity](complexity.md) and [bloat](bloat.md), they are slow, inefficient and distracting. We try not to use them and prefer the [command line](cli.md).
Expert computer users normally frown upon GUI because it is the "noobish", inefficient, limiting, cumbersome, hard to automate, [capitalist](capitalism.md) consumer-style way of interacting with computer. GUI brings [complexity](complexity.md) and [bloat](bloat.md), they are slow, inefficient, distracting, hard to automatize and test. GUI is like baby pictures or simple books with pictures for [illiterate people](plan9.md) and Chimpanzees, for people who need to click on boxes and have flashing strip club colors to keep them entertained, while command line is for normal adults who can read and want to do thing efficiently -- there is a reason why [programming languages](programming_language.md) are plain text (with exception of the ones literally aimed at babies in kindergarden). [Text is universal interface](unix_philosophy.md). So we try not to use GUIs and prefer the [command line](cli.md).
"[Modern](modern.md)" GUIs mostly use [callback](callback.md)-based programming, which again is more complicated than standard polling non-interactive I/O. If you need to do GUI, just use a normal infinite loop FFS.