Have you ever tried using the terminal exclusively for your day-to-day usage for any amount of time?

s_s, 11 months ago

I3wm here. I haven't used a real linux DE since I ran Unity on my netbook. I use terminal apps for almost everything except web browsing and krita

SpicyTofuSoup, 11 months ago

I don't think I could ever give up GUI completely. I would not be able to work without GUI tools for coding, making presentations, editing documents, etc. I don't want to memorize terminal commands for things that are easier / quicker to get done with a GUI. Also, what about gaming?

amd, 11 months ago

I live about 90% in various terminal windows.

I’m multi-machine and play in my homelab stuff a lot, so I sit in mosh/tmux/vim all day long. This has been my usual experience for a long long time. My experimentation tends to be on the GUI side of things, trying out this “vs code” thing everyone is talking about…

but I’ll still never live without a GUI, browsing sucks so hard in a terminal now. It’s basically unworkable.

marvin, 11 months ago

Around 10 years ago after the radeon xorg driver broke for the nth time on my arch install, I decided to just ditch Xorg altogether. I used screen for multiplexing, mutt for mail, irssi and some other messanger and w3m with (framebuffer support for images) for browsing the interwebs. I also had a videoplayer. I think it was mplayer. I rocked that setup for almost a year during college. Fun times.

Trainzkid, 2 years ago

I try to make a habit of using the terminal for as much as I can, which honestly is a lot. I’ve even found a way to use it at work.

One day, I plan to run Linux without a window manager, maybe even without xorg entirely, using the tty’s exclusively.

SudoDnfDashY, 2 years ago

How do you plan to browse the internet?

Trainzkid, 2 years ago

There are things like w3m and other text browsers. I could maybe even get away with curl if I knew it better.

I watch a lot of YouTube, so I could maybe utilize the YouTube downloader cli tool so I can watch them locally.

tmpod, 2 years ago

Some video players (like mpv) allow you to stream directly from Youtube, with no need to download the full thing.