GUIs on Linux seem mostly fine in the sense that you can just use a tiling WM and terminals. Now you have a computer that you can use properly. You mostly use one terminal full screen, but if you have to you can pop open another one and they’ll arrange themselves nicely. Tmux can do this of course, but sometimes you have a nice tmux layout all set up and don’t want to mess with it.

Plus you can also open a web browser if you want to goof around and comment on HN.

And you’ll even have X installed if somebody manages to find some use for non-terminal programs (unlikely but we should admit the possibility).