Re: Anyone still use only use the Terminal?

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 23:21 this Thursday (GMT):

On 2025-04-17, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Subject says it all.
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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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While I use a GUI mostly, there are times I just want to discard the GUI
and switch to the Framebuffer and just use text mode.  Its not just for
'retro' reasons, but having a purely text based set up does reduce
distraction!  The fact that nothing else is visible (except the TMUX
modeline) and nothing else is going on, just creates a different
experience, one more conducive to single minded focus.  The mental
map of what is going on is different, cleaner.
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Just want to hear other peoples thought, whether they find this too.

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I'm responding to this post using Jstar (a variation of the JOE editor)
under slrn. I use the CLI (and small shell scripts) regularly for writing,
taking notes, monitoring my computer, downloading YouTube videos or
extracting audio from these videos. I also occasionally convert audio or
graphic files within the CLI or extract text from PDFs to create ePubs.
There's other stuff I do too, they're just not coming to mind right now. I
would guess that about 15-20% of my computer time is spent in the terminal.

A lot of the standard/oss tools in Linux seem to be command line based
(ffmpeg, imagemagick, pandoc), and its also fun to script stuff.
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