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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date: 26 Apr 2025 07:49:26 GMT
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:

>>> Subject says it all.
>>>
>>> I'm curious whether there are people who do all their computing, or
>>> part of it, without a GUI at all.  That is, just plain Text Mode.
>>
>>
> What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?
> I thought it wa a passing fad.

I use the GUI for email and web browsing.

But command line for almost everything else.

I did start usiing UNIX way before GUIs (see sig)



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