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[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.
+A GUI normally involves the [
WIMP]
paradigm (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pulldown menus
) and provides a nice graphical (higher resolution) way of looking at data. Different GUI toolkits use very different [EventModel]s, which ccan cause a great deal of confusion
.
Purists use GUIs only to run multiple copies of xterm(1)
Compare with CommandLine.
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] [DesktopEnvironment]s.
