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> UIs for the general audience? TUIs! TUIs are easily to parse, succinct in organization and fast input - all for humans. Humans can parse TUIs. And they can ma

> UIs for the general audience? TUIs! TUIs are easily to parse, succinct in organization and fast input - all for humans. Humans can parse TUIs. And they can make up a mental modal. TUIs have the same drawbacks as GUIs and then some. Their big advantage is to work seamlessly over SSH but that’s pretty much it. They are not more discoverable and they are not more efficient than GUIs. There is nothing preventing you from having a decent GUI along the same lines as Midnight Commander to have a file manager without the metaphors you dislike, for example (as a matter of fact, there are several).

Linux-Fan 3y ago
Working over SSH is not the only TUI advantage: IMHO one of the greatest benefits of TUIs is the usage of characters to display the UI. This way, the font size is always equal (no unreadably small fonts). When designing TUIs I found this to be limiting in a creative sense -- I have to really think about how I arrange the TUI elements and information because I cannot put as many elements as I can on a GUI in the same screen space. Also, TUIs seem to be mostely unaffected by the trend to make every GUI element “touch-friendly” large which is an advantage for me as a Desktop user. Full rant here: <https://masysma.net/37/why_terminal.xhtml https://masysma.net/37/why_terminal.xhtml>