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They're all GUIs. Most people using computers in the late 2000s were using GUIs, not X-less Slackware. You asked what "normal" was -- this is normal.

Using GUI doesn't mean not using CLI.

This is not responsive to my comments.

You might be surprised to learn that the original version of Vim (on the Amiga: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/l5j53m/the_text_edit...) was a GUI based application! Ok, it didn't have much in the way of an actual GUI, but it ran in a window which wasn't the shell/CLI window. I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.

> I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.

gvim (for GTK/Gnome) is an official part of vim!

And was called "Vi IMitation" not "Vi IMproved"? Interesting.

How many people's first experience of computers is a small Slackware setup without X? This thread is hilarious.