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Nothing, things like this have existed for a while: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ https:

• shmerl 4y ago
  Hmm: > Development of Kmscon stopped in March 2015. There was a successor project called systemd-consoled, but this project was also later dropped in July 2015. That doesn't sound very promising. Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal?
  • di4na 4y ago
    Because noone is paid to do it.
    • goldorak 4y ago
      That's obviously not the reason, there is a lot of good stuff done by volunteers, it's niche and not enough ppl care about it.
  • throwaway82652 4y ago
    >Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal? Probably because nobody wants to put opentype font rendering and input method support and various other things from a window system into the kernel? This stuff all has to be in userspace so you're better off just running a minimal X or Wayland server at that point.
    • shmerl 4y ago
      Wider color support hardly requires having complex font rendering features.