title: linux terminal based desktop
body: <p>does anybody know, if there is a desktop environment for linux-distros, that is completely based on terminals, but still is able to let the commands create windows (e.g. a browser, an email-program, multimedia, ...)?</p>
  
  <p>Background is, that i want to use my old laptop again - but he is pretty slow and every little performance-saver would help a lot. Also i don't need much besides the terminal, email und a browser.</p>
  
  <p>My research only brought up solutions, where the basic desktop-environment still runs in the background and though still uses system capacity.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>