I agree. But you don't need completely abandon the GUI. There are modern browsers like Pale Moon that reject the idea of the browser as the new OS layer and don

I agree. But you don't need completely abandon the GUI. There are modern browsers like Pale Moon that reject the idea of the browser as the new OS layer and don't implement all the new attack surfaces and CPU wastes. Combined with NoScript temp whitelist only you can browse normally but without most of the resource wasting (ie, ram usage from multi-process, web(gl/etc), and the like. I regularly do hundreds (ie, 300+) of loaded tabs with less than 2 GB of ram used. That said, I still use tools like youtube-dl on most of my computers and IRC and RSS and all the rest.