I thought about this the other day after I ripped on a similar concept. Yes, at first it seems like an incredibly dumb waste of resources. This is true if the r

I thought about this the other day after I ripped on a similar concept. Yes, at first it seems like an incredibly dumb waste of resources. This is true if the rendering is used to only add useless fluff and effects to the rendering process. However, the G in GPU stands for graphics and accelerated graphics is nothing new. An early example I remember are the windows accelerator cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_accelerator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_accelerator Though let's be honest here, if the OS were designed properly then the terminal application would not need to worry if there is a GPU or not. The graphics libraries and drivers should take care of all that.