For those that are, for some reason, incredulous of having more performant software (???), here's a simple program to demonstrate the point:
use std::{
fs::File,
io::{BufWriter, Write},
};
fn main() {
let buf = File::create("/dev/stdout").unwrap();
let mut w = BufWriter::new(buf);
let mut i = 0;
while i <= 100000 {
writeln!(&mut w, "{}", i).unwrap();
i += 1;
}
}
It simply prints the numbers 0-100000 to the screen. Compile it (rustc path-to-file). Run it in a non-accelerated terminal with time ./path-to-bin. Now time that same binary in a terminal emulator with GPU-acceleration.
The difference becomes more apparent with more text. Now, imagine needing to use something like find on a large set of files. Doing this on a non-accelerated terminal is literally slower.
It's fine if you don't need a GPU-accelerated terminal, but having acceleration is genuinely useful and a noticeable quality-of-life improvement if you do anything more than just basic CLI usage.