Several Interface for Several Usages

Fleeting

I use in my daily life tools that are CLI, TUI, GUI and NUI, depending on the usage.

Often, people think I am a “geek” to “prefer CLI tools instead of GUI tools”. I admit I may be a bit geeky, but in my humble opinion, the reason is not at all that supposedly prefer CLI tools. It is more that I use the appropriate tool for the job to be as fast as possible.

I tend to remind those people that

• my MUA is a NUI tool,
• my life hacking editor is a GUI tool,
• my 3D modeling tool is a GUI tool,
• my 2D modeling tool is a GUI tool,
• my web browsing tool is a GUI tool,
• my pomodoro is a NUI tool,

I decided to believe that those people are subject to a cognitive dissonance of the form:

• we use a GUI tool to do X
• we are clever
• hence clever people use a GUI tool to do X (association)
• Sam uses a CLI (or TUI) tool to do X
• Sam appears to be clever

Then, they minimize this cognitive dissonance by minimizing my status, putting me in the “geek” category.

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