A third way of using Linux

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When you want to use Linux, you do so in two ways. You either use the command-line interface and type out every single command, or you use the graphical user interface, which is much more user-friendly (on average).

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“What ‘third way’?” Think about it: What gives you the benefit of a visual interface, without the bloat that comes with Wayland or X11 ? What mode of computing seemed to have come and gone so fast, that modern applications in its form seem noteworthy and bizarre because of the form factor alone? The Third Way is the text user interface , a.k.a., the TUI .

The TUI experience is text-only, but is more approachable than the command line, despite technically being run inside of a CLI session. And because it doesn’t require services like X11 or Wayland on the lower level, it frees up even more RAM for the system to use, while still giving an accessible UX.

You typically see it used in isolation: htop/btop , Midnight Commander , and distro installers like archinstall and slackinstall . What we’ve never seen is a unifying system that treated the TUI itself as the primary user experience. I think, in 2026, it’s time to consider making the TUI a first-class UX for *nix OSs.

I don’t know if you’ve checked RAM prices lately, but they’re at a premium.

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