Advantages & Disadvantages of GUI & CLI

Advantages & Disadvantages of GUI & CLI

1. GUI

   • Graphical user interface: The users chose options by pointing a mouse at an icon representing that option
   • Advantages
     • Much easier to use for beginners
     • Enable users to easily exchange information between software using cut and paste
     • Easy to explore and find your way around the system
     • Don't require to learn complicated commands
     • Usually reasonable help systems included with the interfaces
   • Disadvantages
     • Use a lot of memory and processing power, can be slower to use than CLI
     • Can be irritating to experienced users when simple tasks require many more operations
     • Take up a larger amount of hard disk space than other interfaces

2. CLI

   • Advtanges
     • Experienced users who know the commands are able to work very quickly without having to find their way around menus
     • Command driven programs don't need memory and processing power of the latest computer and will run on low spec machines
     • Command driven programs don't require Windows to run
     • Command-line interfaces can run many programs
       • e.g. Batch file could launch half a dozen programs to do this task
   • Disadvantages
     • Commands must be typed correctly and in the right order of the command will ot work
     • Certain users may not be experienced with the commands which can slow them down with having to find their way around menus.
     • An inexperienced user can find a command driven program difficult to use due to the number of commands that must be learnt
   • Command-line interface: Allows users to interact with the computer by typing in commands.