qubodup wrote:PS: It really is a mind thing, using the CLI makes me feel closer to the config files and to the "truth" while using guis often means that information is hidden plus I can't see any connection.
That is the key to using a cli - your own mind is the gui.
For us ppc guys, our virtual terminals can look so bad, that sometimes a super minimal window manager and at least one xterm is the ticket. Which window manager to use? It's not fluxbox, it's TWM. (I love fluxbox personally, but for hardcore cli-emulating environment on ppc, just the very basics of xorg and twm are enough.)
One of my all time favorite books comes from 1994, and if you put on bell-bottoms or a pen-protector (your choice), and read it next to your cli-only system, you'll feel as if you were there:
A Quarter Century of Unix
Peter H. Salus
Addison-Wesley publishers
isbn 0-201-54777-5
You know, those guys and gals had it going on back then!