Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:08:03 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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I'm curious whether there are people who do all their computing, or part
of it, without a GUI at all.  That is, just plain Text Mode.

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On a local machine, very rarely. The nice thing about a GUI is you can
have multiple terminal sessions, and you can copy and paste between them
(and other text windows, like editors). And your terminal emulator can
offer features that the old physical terminals could never match, like
choice of themes (font and colours), scrollback (with search) etc. Oh, and
Unicode, of course.
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Fallback to a text console is handy if the GUI startup itself has failed.
I did fix an issue with that for somebody a few weeks ago, but I would say
that’s rare these days.
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On a remote machine, I normally SSH in. So I am still using the local GUI
capabilities, rather than relying on any remote one.

You can actually change the font in the framebuffer terminal too, though
the selection is different to within a GUI.

TMUX can take care of copy and paste and scrollback, but it isn't quite
as smooth as with a mouse.