You mean people still log into a virtual terminal and call startx? (blushing emoji)

I mean, if that's the way they like it, that's fine. It feels a bit quaint, though, at least to me. If a graphical desktop is what I want anyway, why not make it automatic? I'm not judging, just trying to understand.

I know a lot of arch users that do that, especially if they just use simple window managers like i3 or window maker. Though, on a wayland system startx doesn't work, each compositor has its own command