Your terminal is on one side, the web browser's on the other. When you really need web browser, though, you can launch it and Awesome makes room for it by splitting your screen in half. When you first launch it, your terminal window is full screen, just like the text console you really want to be greeted with upon login. With Awesome, your 'primary' desktop can be your terminal. Tiling windowsĪwesome understands your plight. The bottom line is that, whether you like it or not, you need a desktop. Like it or not, you need an office suite. And even though you may use a perfectly reasonable markup language like AsciiDoc, you're probably sent a word processor document sometimes and, while you could use Pandoc to convert the document into AsciiDoc and then back into an office document, that risks losing something in translation. Like it or not, you need a web browser to interact with the ticketing system. For instance, even though there are issue tracking systems, like the open source Bugzilla, that provide terminal commands as an interface, sometimes you're on a team that uses an issue tracker (usually it's not open source) that provides only a web application. The reality of modern computing, however, is that there are some applications that are just easier to use through a graphical interface. To be perfectly honest, the answer's often no, at least for 80% of your tasks.

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