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Unix is more command line oriented, honestly. Plan 9's is really GUI centric, although not a ordinary GUI.

• pjmlp 13y ago
  I have used Plan9 and don't agree, specially looking at the examples of Amiga OS, Atari OS, Mac OS (X), Windows, OS/2, IRIX, NeXTStep, Native Oberon, SmallTalk...
  • weland 13y ago
    Have you also used Acme (non-trivially)? The UI makes heavy use of text (the whole thing being a text processing environment after all) but the graphical aspect is highly significant, and most of the (fairly complex) interaction is via mouse. The Plan 9 userspace excels at tying text-using utils, but the traditional Unix CLI is not the means by which you tie them. Even the terminal is quite far removed from a typical command line.
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      Acme is based on how the whole Native Oberon OS works, which provides a much better UI experience using the same principles, specially the last version (System 3).
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    • pjmlp 13y ago
      That is nothing new, it is how Native Oberon works (1987), which is based on Smaltalk (1972) works. In Native Oberon, every module can export functions as commands that are mouse callable in the UI and take input from mouse selections, which can even be UI objects (gadgets). Most of the mouse/keyboard interactions in Rio were already available in Native Oberon.