One reason GUIs aren't as cool as TUIs is ... people don't want them to be. Growing up with TUIs, I was quite surprised how often people refuse to use a progra

One reason GUIs aren't as cool as TUIs is ... people don't want them to be. Growing up with TUIs, I was quite surprised how often people refuse to use a program because it doesn't conform to the "native" look and feel. I've found plenty of people who'll happily use htop in the terminal, but then complain when a GUI app doesn't respect some tiny aspect of look and feel. Even things like the placement of "Options" or "Preferences" in the "wrong" menu causes them ire. For whatever reason, people just seem to expect different things from GUIs.