Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Mar 2006 22:24 UTC, submitted by Valour
"There are several possible reasons why you might choose to use the command line interface as your desktop environment. For one thing, it uses less electricity, so you could maximize battery life on your laptop computer. Secondly, it forces you to think about your operating system and directory structure in a totally different way than a GUI does; this could greatly enhance your understanding of GNU/Linux and cause you to be more creative in your technological problem solving. And thirdly, everyone will think you're a supreme computer genius for ditching X11 for the CLI. People passing by your desk will think you're some kind of computer god. Who doesn't want that?"
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2005-07-18
From your twin link:
Twin is a text-mode windowing environment: it draws and manages text windows on a text-mode display, like X11 does for graphical windows. It has a built-in window manager and terminal emulator, and can be used as server for remote clients in the same style as X11. It can display on Linux console, on X11 and inside itself.
This reminds me of Quarterdeck Desqview, which was a text-mode window manager that was very popular before Windows became stable enough to use.
Back in about '90 I could simultaneously compile software in one window while downloading something in another while having absolutely no delay to my text editor (PCWrite) in a third window on a 20MHz 386. All three windows were DOS shells of course.
It was some years before PCs became fast enough for any GUI to compete with Desqview.