The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline

Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by yoz-y on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @12:36PM (#12166830)

Of course they do, but typing stuff is just physically slower for some operations. Typing git log, then scrolling through the pages of text in order to find the interesting change will always be slower than a right click -> log and then "pointing at things".

I think your conversation metaphor is good, but in a GUI the answer can be richer and interactive. A CLI can only manipulate text, a GUI can manipulate text where necessary and use a better medium (images, graphs, tables) where necessary.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by vetinari on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:36AM (#12171535)

There are always advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. I always shudder when I recollect configuring IIS using GUI ;).

CLI does not need to manipulate text only necessarily, see the command line in AutoCAD for example.

But yes, GUI in many cases is a better way, I wouldn't want to have cli-only Photoshop-like app (or even cli-only CAD modeller). The point is to recognize effectivity of both approaches for a given problem, at the given abstraction level.

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