Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:08:03 +0000, Borax Man wrote:

Subject says it all.
 
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.
 

What, exactly do you mean by "the terminal?"  I will assume that you
mean the command-line interface, or CLI.

I use virtual terminals (VT) all the time.  I usually have 4-5 of them
open across several virtual desktops (VD).

My favorite TUI, or text user interface, is Midnight Commander (MC),
which offers a plethora of indispensible capabilities.

Thus, for me, it is VTs on VDs with MC that accomplishes most of my
work.

Of course, I build all of my software from source so there is much BASH/Perl
scripting involved and these only run on VTs.  Then there are many Bash/Perl
scripts that perform important processing tasks of various sorts like
document scanning and image/sound manipulation.

For me the GUI is just a convenient device that contains VTs on
VDs with MC.

There are also times when a genuine GUI program is called for, such
as Mathematica, Matlab, wxMaxima, GIMP, Geomview, MathMod, Geany, Cooledit,
Pan, Sylpheed, etc., but all maintenance, configuration, building, testing,
important other stuff, etc. is done with VTs on VDs with MC.



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