Take the 2-minute tour ×  When I press ctrl+alt+F1 it goes to
virtual terminal. What is this virtual terminal for?  When do
you need to use it?  share|improve this question Do you mean the
difference between such a virtual terminal and a terminal
window? –  Georg Schölly Apr 2 '11 at 8:31 This question is
prett well covered here: askubuntu.com/questions/14284/… ... and
you would use it when you don't have (or need. or want) a
Graphical User Interface.... it is a text based Command Line
Interface (with no graphics at all) –  Peter.O Apr 2 '11 at 9:08
The advantage of it is that it is 99% of the time accessible and
usable, even if the system is short of freezing or the graphical
interface has frozen or crashed hard. –  Bobby Apr 2 '11 at
12:23  2 Answers 2  up vote 7 down vote accepted  Not all users
need or run a graphical environment, and they will work from the
virtual terminals.  Many (most) servers do not have a graphical
environment as users are rarely logged in to the console.
Servers most often require