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<article>
<p>
Modern GUI fucking suck. Very little customization, mobile first design,
<i>GNOMEism</i>, electron... A lot of things to dislike indeed which will
of course lead to people disliking. Some even lump all of this into one
thing and blame GUI in general. Those are people I call command line
reactionaries.
</p>
<h2>Why command line is wonderful</h2>
<p>
When I write things people (often willingly) misunderstand what I
say. <b>No, I am not saying command line programs are bad.</b> In fact here
is a list of why they are wonderful:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Simple to write, test, and maintain.</li>
<li>Easily automated and used from other programs.</li>
<li>Doesn't have themeing and integration issues when used in some desktop
environments and window managers.</li>
<li>Screen reader friendly unless you really fuck it up.</li>
<li>Can be used over ssh or telnet.</li>
<li>Slightly more dummy prove from shitty developers.</li>
<li>Heavily keyboard focused.</li>
<li>Can be used in the tty.</li>
</ul>
<h2><i>Why do I write this if command line good</i></h2>
<p>
There is this generally held belief with some unix users GUI programs can't
be good. They will make command line versions of programs purely as a
reaction to the GUI version sucking. Quickly this turns to just making a
command line version for everything once the black and white "GUI
inherently bad" mindset kicks in. File manager? Ranger (even though ls,
touch, rm... exist). Email? Mutt. These programs existence is a net
positive but did anyone ever stop to think "what if we made and use GUI
programs that don't suck?". Some tasks are just plain annoying to do from
the command line yet the command line versions get more development and the
GUI implementations are left up to beginner python programmers who can't
get the most out of python yet alone use a better language. Those kinds of
programmers I speak of also fall for bad software design philosophy the
most. TUI programs are also kind of stuppa. They cross out a few of the
things on the command line is wonderful list without getting that much
closer to the advantages of GUI programs.
</p>
<h2>What to do about it</h2>
<p>
We need GUI programs that don't use libraries programmed with one desktop
environment in mind. Use pure gtk and qt instead. GUI programs should work
in both wayland and X11 not one or the other. No more annoying popups and
treating the user like they don't know what they are doing. We need config
files and customization even if its possible for the user to <i>break
it</i>. GUI programs shouldn't be the dummy option, they should be the
graphical option.
</p>
</article>
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