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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:49:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:08:03 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> 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.

On a local machine, very rarely. The nice thing about a GUI is you can 
have multiple terminal sessions, and you can copy and paste between them 
(and other text windows, like editors). And your terminal emulator can 
offer features that the old physical terminals could never match, like 
choice of themes (font and colours), scrollback (with search) etc. Oh, and 
Unicode, of course.

Fallback to a text console is handy if the GUI startup itself has failed. 
I did fix an issue with that for somebody a few weeks ago, but I would say 
that’s rare these days.

On a remote machine, I normally SSH in. So I am still using the local GUI 
capabilities, rather than relying on any remote one.