Poll: GUI or CLI?

[Chaotic42]

Easy question. I say CLI. Cluttered GUIs are annoying.

Edit: Ok, I realize the question is a bit vague. Let's say given some task that can be performed with both a CLI and a GUI (IE, no Photoshop), which would you prefer a majority of the time, CLI or GUI?

 

[PrincessGuard]

I find posting to ATOT slightly difficult from the command line.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
I find posting to ATOT slightly difficult from the command line.

Really? I've done it before. No biggie.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

subjective question

 

[Jugernot]

Depends on what I'm working on.... for admin, CLI. For desktop work, GUI is the only way to go.

 

[SSP]

Not every GUI is cluttered. It depends on the programmer.

 

[piku]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
I find posting to ATOT slightly difficult from the command line.

I did it for years witrh BBSes, so I don't see why it wouldn't work now.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

i like both

 

[Colt45]

it depends on what is being done...

 

[notfred]

Photoshop is much easier with a GUI.

For what purpose are you talking about?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
subjective question

Yes, it wouldn't be very interesting to make a poll about something obvective like "Is the sky blue?"

 

[dighn]

i like gui

 

[PrincessGuard]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
I find posting to ATOT slightly difficult from the command line.

Really? I've done it before. No biggie.

Which implies you're not doing it now.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
I find posting to ATOT slightly difficult from the command line.

Really? I've done it before. No biggie.

Which implies you're not doing it now.

No, I don't know of any CLI web browser for Windows. I haven't really looked though.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Sh|t. I voted that I didn't know what one of them was, just as I realized what command line interface was.

<-- t3h St00pid!

 

[ElFenix]

teh gui takes up like 50% CPU cycles so i run teh CLI

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: notfred
Photoshop is much easier with a GUI.

For what purpose are you talking about?

haha. that would be awful as a command line interface..

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

For management of servers: CLI

For webbrowsing and playing games: GUI

 

[Cerb]

Both!
My GUI isn't cluttered.
I have LSXCommand up for a nice little command line, a command prompt up in the background at all times for easy access, and I use both command lines and the windows GUI to manage files, settings, etc.
Now that I just reformatted, I'll be butchering this theme and aiming for even more integration of the two.

 

[Zugzwang152]

i like my buttons!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Cerb
Both!
My GUI isn't cluttered.
I have LSXCommand up for a nice little command line, a command prompt up in the background at all times for easy access, and I use both command lines and the windows GUI to manage files, settings, etc.
Now that I just reformatted, I'll be butchering this theme and aiming for even more integration of the two.

Well, for example when I look at something like Nero or Easy CD Creator, it just looks so cluttered and wasteful compared to a nice round of mkisofs and cdrecord.

I never really used a GUI until 1995.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Firebird, gimp, and a few other gui apps are important to me and just wouldn't work right in text, but for everything else, text all the way!

 

[dman]

Both. Some things are quicker/easier in GUI (selecting items from a list), some in CLI (Wildcards and rules). But, I like entering commands so I voted CLI.

 

[skace]

The best is a combination of both. Allow for main usage of the application to be automated / scripted through CLI. Create a nice frontend GUI that isn't cluttered.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I can't decide ...

I geuss GUI, though I am an IRC junkie and i prefer BitchX to all other clients and its CLI, I also prefer vi over any GUI based editor .. I guess I like GUI for my gaming/mp3/websurfing box ... and CLI for most of my linex stuff (though I like the eyecandy supplied by KDE3.1, and i typically run my CLI software over a GUI desktop (its nice to have multiple Xterms on my screen at once as well as an IM client, and network stats. Just my Opinion though ...