Re: terminal only for two weeks

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, John McCue wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

From the ?text is good enough? department:
Title: Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:13:32 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/141194/using-only-a-linux-terminal-for-my-personal-computing-in-2024/
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A month and a bit ago,?I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only
computer[1].
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The only way to really find out was to give it a go.

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I am glad you tried, sure it was a nice and very different
experience.
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Doing everything from the terminal just isn't viable for me,
mostly because I didn't grow up with it.

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Fair enough, but at least you tried to see what things were
like for us old people.  But yes, big changes like this are
hard to deal with.
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I started before DOS existed on minis and I remember when
GUIs became a thing.  I had to be dragged kicking and
screaming into that environment :)  Still I pretty much live
in Xterms and only need a GUI for browsing and html email.

Through the wonders of alpine, atleast you can do html email in the terminal as well! =)
I use the gui for web browsing, reading pdf:s and libreoffice. The rest sits in the terminal (email, programming/scripting, tinkering, reading text files).
I have been thinking about moving the reading part of web browsing into the terminal as well, but haven't found a browser I'm happy with. Modern web sites tend to become too messed up when viewed in the terminal. Maybe it would be possible to write a kind of "pre-processor" that formats web sites with a text based browser in mind?

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Nice post!
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