There are many terminal users, check their email in terminal, and use browser like Links, Links2, and would like to be able to see pictures sometimes.

Also graphics response in terminal are blazing fast, and compared to whatever is happening in the Apple, MS and Gnome GUI environment that are just getting sluggish by the version upgrade. More and more I just want to do everything in terminal, and not have to deal with all this GPU acceleration BS that is happening. Give me the UI in pixels likes it is 1980's. Most of times just want to do my work, We don't care if there is some anti-aliasing or shadows under the text.

> Also graphics response in terminal are blazing fast, and compared to whatever is happening in the Apple, MS and Gnome GUI environment that are just getting sluggish by the version upgrade

Gnome is far from slow, and doing it properly matters. Sure, you can also have mouse and whatnot integration in a terminal.. but it becomes questionable.

Console-based analysis over SSH is much easier when your console tools can just output charts etc directly to the terminal. Also image processing scripts are easier to write when you can directly view the images created at each stage of the process.