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IMO it's like seeing kids bust out disposable kodak cameras at the bar: generational nostalgia
by morkalork 1y ago
IMO it's like seeing kids bust out disposable kodak cameras at the bar: generational nostalgia
- baq 1y agoTUIs being designed by engineers for engineers make them rather timeless. Extra points for being keyboard-first: lots of modern GUI tools don’t even consider the keyboard for anything other than text input, to the point that even tab order is broken, if it works at all, or the escape key closes multiple stacked modal windows, or enter doesn’t submit the dialog, or…
- backscratches 1y agoTUIs work better than GUIs. So much more powerful with so many less resources.
- zimpenfish 1y agoBack in the olden times (2009) I was working for a company trying to sell advertising devices (screens on buses) with a fancy* HTML interface for setting up/controlling/reporting etc. to Titan. Except all the Titan operators hated it because their old system - an old TUI - was about a million times faster for them to use (not just because they were used to it but it didn't require a mouse, etc.) than the fancy* HTML (which was, to be fair, bloody awful but not my fault.)
- backscratches 1y agoSounds unholy! I think the only people who disparage TUIs haven't used one!