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by wsintra2022 612 days ago
For me it’s all about the stripping away of distractions and using the keyboard. I think there are qualities to that kind of interface that desktop GUI’s can’t compete with and vice versa depending on your needs.
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As someone that used TUIs when nothing else was available at an affordable price, hardly.

Unless your talking about Clipper/DBase, or micro-computers green screens for data entry done by any 4GL, and even those only aren't mostly available on GUIs due to the laziness to provide adequate shortcuts for form navigation.