Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de writes:
Do you perhaps sometimes log in on your machine on a slow line? Do you then feel like this is a configuration error you should get warned by every programm you try to run?
E.g. "emacs" silently falls back that way too.
But emacs actually behaves correctly on a tty. Most Windows apps will be completely unusable with ttydrv, and failing to start is much better than messing up the user's terminal. We could conceivably have an option to enable that behavior, but it should definitely not be the default.