This is an article about preferring to use Linux over Windows, not using the Linux console without graphics. The author's screenshots clearly show a GUI. Sorry but this is an important dinstinction to me because I actually know people who insist on using the Linux Console.
I did for a number of years in the late 90s/early 2000s. Debian briefly, and then OpenBSD.
I had mutt for mail, slrn for usenet, BitchX for IRC, Lynx for the web, vim as an editor and mpg123 to play music. What would I need X11 for?