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-Acronym for __G__raphical __U__ser __I__nterface.
+[
Acronym]
for __G__raphical __U__ser __I__nterface.
A GUI normally involves the WIMP paradigm (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer) and provides a nice graphical (higher resolution) way of looking at data.
Purists use GUIs only to run multiple copies of xterm(1)
Compare with CommandLine.
-[GUI] on [Linux
] is provided by X(7)
, and
any number of things on top
of it
.
+One of the downsides about MicrosoftWindows is that the
[GUI] is built into the OperatingSystem. Conversely
, Linux provides
any number of [GUI] interfaces; most
of which use TheXWindowingSystem - look up [GNOME] or [KDE] for some [GUI] DesktopEnvironments
.
