When your vision is not very good, the terminal has one big advantage: the same font size and same contrast for everything (I use VT100 mode, so no colors). I

When your vision is not very good, the terminal has one big advantage: the same font size and same contrast for everything (I use VT100 mode, so no colors). I have recently upgraded to a 150-dpi monitor, and now pretty much all graphical programs are unusable, because I cannot even find the menu item to increase the font size without a magnifying glass, and even then most programs do not let you change the UI font size. Terminal for everything is a great remedy for all these troubles.