How I use my terminal

As someone that was happy that I could finally afford owning computers with a graphics display on them, this going back to the terminal doesn't stop surprising me.

We still do horses, but hardly anyone is favouring them for travelling around the continent delivering mail.

Kudos to the people that would rather experience that, I guess.

Zoomer terminal maximalist here.

My thing is that most UIs use such poor use of the screen real estate. I get it, pretty is the priority. But when I want to do work, the padding on everything gets to be excessive. Additionally, it’s really nice to be able to host my dotfiles in GitHub and I can be in a 100% familiar environment within a couple minutes. I have a variety of machines I work on. Same thing goes for mouse usage. I’m much faster operating the keyboard, whereas I switch between mice and trackpads and sensitivities when I switch devices. Keyboards are mostly the same. Maybe it’s a skill issue on my part but oh well ;)

My issue with the terminal is the exact opposite, everything is monospaced, hard to read, and space-inefficient due to that. Keyboard use is not a terminal-only thing either, it's a problem with some modern UIs that are hostile to power users. I feel it's at least partly because power users that create their own tools removed themselves from serious GUI development and are too busy with fancy TUI doodads and dark themes instead.

I feel like the point of monospace is to be easier to read in text dense environments. I find it much easier to read a monospaced font in the terminal and it makes editing commands much nicer to work with.