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by mr_toad 1147 days ago
> I don't think I can be convinced that any modern browser UI will ever match the efficiencies offered by a terminal-based interface.

But you can run a terminal in the browser. It’s a pretty common way to interact with cloud servers. And as long as the server isn’t on the other side of the planet it’s not noticeably slower than a local terminal.

The problem isn’t the technology, its the sad state of UI engineering.
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awesomeMilou 1147 days ago
It's comparing apples with oranges. Your typical web based UI is layers and layers of rasterized graphics, meanwhile a terminal is the frontend for a platforms serial console.

I'm sure you can emulate the same performance in a modern webbrowser, it's just that no one cares, because no system administrator relies solely on web interfaces to get work done.

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artificialLimbs 1147 days ago
>> no system administrator relies solely on web interfaces to get work done

Increasingly, they do. And prefer to, because if it's in a browser, it's probably someone else's cloud system that they don't have to administer.

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