> I also think that there is a strange magical thinking-esque hang-up against any UI that can't be drawn in a terminal. There's nothing magical about it. I pr

> I also think that there is a strange magical thinking-esque hang-up against any UI that can't be drawn in a terminal. There's nothing magical about it. I prefer text based interfaces whenever available as they are generally more responsive, light on resources, use less network bandwidth, and are inherently compatible with SSH. They also tend to be very minimal, having far fewer extraneous features (ie fiddly distractions) due to the inherent design constraints. If one isn't available though then I'm happy to use a modern GUI (my web browser is an example). In fact, GUIs consistently seem to be more newbie friendly so if it's a one off I might actually avoid a text based interface just to save time.