Grappling with TTY

Even though I’ve used Linux for a long time, it’s always been largely from the comfort (confines?) of a graphical environment or from a tiling window manager. Ending up in TTY was an accident reserved for when I pushed the wrong keyboard shortcut. It was something that invoked panic, fear. A “Get me out of here,” response. Over the past day, as part of the week of retro-computing and…