I prefer the 9front/plan9 approach. Text bound, more than Unix itself, but not tied to 80x24 terminals. The windows are resizeable, so is the text inside of it,

I prefer the 9front/plan9 approach. Text bound, more than Unix itself, but not tied to 80x24 terminals. The windows are resizeable, so is the text inside of it, and the hard point is that everyting it's a file and almost everything can be network bound.