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I am someone who uses the console a lot; I do rely on fbterm for sanity, though, and I don't know how reliable/secure it is long term. Arch, for instance, does not include it in its repositories, though Void does.

I did for a number of years in the late 90s/early 2000s. Debian briefly, and then OpenBSD.

I had mutt for mail, slrn for usenet, BitchX for IRC, Lynx for the web, vim as an editor and mpg123 to play music. What would I need X11 for?

"Console" is too generic to be pedantic about it. I mean, the Steam Deck also qualifies as Linux Console...

"Linux console" is a specific thing:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console

No, the word "console" is too generic too assume that "Linux console" can only refer to the virtual terminal that is built into the Linux kernel.

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console#Computing_and_video_ga...

"Command-line interface" as used by the author of this article is also listed.