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As in not starting an X server? No.

As in most of the time the window focus is on a terminal? Yes.

In my computer, 90% of the time there are only 2 types of windows open. 1 is the web browser, and the other is the terminal. Sometimes I open up Emacs to read my mail or write some notes in org-mode, but my text editor of choice is vim in a terminal, not even gvim.

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Not that (which is similar to my setup), I mean tty[0-6] which come up when you press ctrl-alt-F[1-6]

For a daily driver... it's hard to imagine the conditions where that would be better than using X. Maybe if one's stuck with a machine so old (like 90's old) where even light window managers lag, then maybe. You normally wouldn't install X on servers or raspberry-pi's or other purpose built machines like routers, but you also wouldn't use them as a daily driver. I imagine even people that need to work on those extensively would rather log-in via ssh from their real daily-driver.

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