Zos_Kia

Another counterpoint on my end : good/popular shows tend to converge creatively. Mid content can have great ideas that you wouldn’t find elsewhere.

It’s great nourishment for the creative mind. For example I keep a bunch of old sci fi short story magazines cause they are full of ideas and characters that are thought provoking but not mature or polished enough for the mass market. Keeps my brain on its toes.

I feel GUIs complicate everything. You need graphics drivers and a display server and a compositor and a window manager etc… it’s a pain and in the end you still have to open a console to type in commands for your actual self hosting. Not worth the effort in my opinion, and it’s better to bite the bullet and get used to the terminal and ssh early.

I recommend using something like tmux or screen, so you still have basic comforts like tabs and multi task. Once you get used to it you can configure it and add themes and plugins if you like. A modern tmux setup really feels like a desktop except everything is faster and it barely consumes any resources.