>0 noodlez @ 2025/01/22 00:48
Recently (Like 4 months ago) I went a full week using nothing but terminal applications for everything I did. I had two escape routes: My phone, my TV. This let me do super important things (my phone) and still watch my YouTube videos (my TV). That being said it was actually a huge success and I still use many of those applications every day. I explicitly removed any DE I had on my Linux machine and ran Sway with Foot running in it. I could only run new terminal emulators. Has anybody else ever done a similar challenge? Would anybody else subject themselves to such a challenge?
>1 mpisco @ 2025/01/22 17:48
>>OP Can't. I do a lot of work in school with Word and I'm pretty sure that word isn't an alternative for this. Otherwise I'd probably be able to do this challenge with a combination of vim and tmux.
>2 singletona082 @ 2025/02/05 21:19
>>1 I've tried it. I can come close, but , honestly I've never tried going full terminal for Everything.
>3 eliwatson @ 2025/02/07 23:51
I have wanted too for a while but never had the initive to just do it. It would probbly be on my laptop, as i mostly just do text based things on there anyway. I think it would deffinatly be a fun challenge to try out. This might be the reminder I nedded to actually do it.
>4 say @ 2025/02/08 22:10
>>1 I'm not saying you have to do this but I make word docs at work (and powerpoints) with vim + markdown and pandoc. It's something like vi file.md; pandoc -i file.md -o file.docx. I think you can use an existing docx as a template with pandoc so all the fonts etc are applied to your new doc. That's how I do powerpoints.
>5 anthk @ 2025/02/21 11:12
>>OP I spent a year or two with that, it worked perfectly fine. Now my challenge it's to use 9front for almost everything. OFC for the tildeverse I have to spawn a VT220 emulator, but for the rest I can use doc/xls dumping tools with ease.
>6 jacksonbenete @ 2025/02/21 19:32
For a few years I was an Emacs user, wrote my own plugins, my own themes... I would do everything over Emacs, eshell or Terminal. To be honest, I wouldn't trouble myself anymore. Nowadays I just use the mouse, IntelliJ (Goland) and sometimes vi(1). I respect who thinks otherwise and enjoys the Terminal. I enjoy it as well. But doesn't worth the trouble for me anymore.
>7 anonymous @ 2025/02/24 23:21
>>OP when i started learning linux and unix 6 years ago, I first started with ubuntu which i then lasted using 5 months more or less, and then one day I found out about archlinux, and I hopped in, I did the installation and for some reason (I can't remember) I couldn't get X running, and I decided to keep it the way it is, so I adapted to the TTY life, I had a framebuffer pdf reader, an image reader, I got mpv working with, and I watched youtube videos using it, there was no X and no Graphics, I survived 2 years, and then I lost that computer for traveling reasons, now I've kept alot of the habits I only use X for firefox (which you could run without it technically) and for playing poker. You can live very well inside the TTY, you will adapt and you ll learn a lot of stuff, limitation is good. I even got the mouse working once, just moving the cursor around no clicking XD >>5 I've tried to use plan9 two weeks ago, I hate it. it is too unix to be unix. I was done with it when it would simply crash on me for no clear reason, you simply lose all your work for some error that wasn't directed correctly, they simply print them on your rio session, and you're expected to deal with it. also it lacks a lot of hardware support, which didn't help when I needed to find something that was not the man pages, I decided to leave that, and come unix; the organic life, where things make sense and are usable. but still go and try it, you should have your own opinion.
>8 anonymous @ 2025/02/25 06:19
>>7 i've been considering doing the tty-only format, ever since i switched to gentoo and started launching my wm manually. at some point you start to wonder, how much could i get done before i actually have to open the gui? i'll probably give it a shot soon - i'll never be able to do 100% tty, as i work with graphics, but doing everything excluding work in a terminal seems like a fun challenge.
>9 arthur @ 2025/04/08 02:14
Every time something breaks and I can't fix it immiedieatly(ignore my spelling) I am pretty much forced to but otherwise I haven't tried
>10 lkh @ 2025/04/25 14:49
>>OP I do a lot of my day to day stuff on the terminal. calendar for appointments and reminders, a simple todo.txt file for todos. Text formatting preferably in in groff but also in pandoc if a fancy modern format other than pdf is required. I actually use the 411 script from *The UNIX Programming Environment* by Kernighan and Pike for phone numbers and contact details. awk and some csv files can get you a long way with simple data processing, too. Work wise I'm locked into the Windows Environment, but I use these text base tools when ever I can. Cheers, lkh