In the day when I first started using linux, the only reason to install X was to play the open source version of Doom that someone had ported to Linux in their free time. Times have changed since then; I was stuck in my ways for a while, but I've come to appreciate Linux in the world of desktop communities. I'll always be a terminal junkie; I'm comfortable with the idea that the programs I invoke run in a location that is not "under my desk," but "in the room with the giant air conditioner," or sometimes "in another country." I suppose it comes with the territory, though: I work on a layer of infrastructure so deep in to the network that even the QA department doesn't directly evaluate my work. There's nothing to present graphically, and frankly, I prefer vim in a PuTTY window over gvim anyways.