Because of the increased supply of managing remote devices. The tradeoff with limited graphics is more expansive platform support. For example, we're doing so

Because of the increased supply of managing remote devices. The tradeoff with limited graphics is more expansive platform support. For example, we're doing some Layer 2/Layer 1 networking processing on an embedded linux environment. We can have a nice TUI displaying average SNR, various waveforms, connection status. It's great. Also, when you do lots of work with remote devices, having something like termscp is wonderful for file transfer.