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On my personal computer, a Linux box, my web browser of choice is Lynx. I love it for its speed and simplicity. Everything I see on the screen is text. Websites load blazingly fast, since it isn't loading images and video. I can navigate through pages quickly, at least well-formatted ones.
Lynx has some problems with the modern web. It doesn't support Javascript, so some websites just won't work. Also, some websites with ridiculous menu systems take getting used to. You need to know how to search for what you want, to bypass all the additional garbage on the site.
Lynx is great, but the modern web wasn't built to support text-based web-browsers. So websites that are have tons of navigation off images, complex menu systems, and the like are a pain in the neck.
Geminispace, on the other hand, is built in a way that text-based Gemini browsers, like Amfora, work great! Geminispace is built on text, and thus it is fast, and light, unlike the modern web. A lot of websites nowadays are basically complete applications, and can be many megabytes in size. Gemini capsuls are small by design.
This explains why I enjoy browsing Geminispace over the World Wide Web. It is designed to browse the way I prefer to browse even the WWW, as text-only. That is true even if you are using a GUI browser, like Lagrange (beautiful browser btw!). With a GUI browser, you are still just reading text. Your navigation is just done a lot via the mouse instead of the keyboard.