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A Terminal-Only Desktop

Is it possible to live only in the terminal? Either on a TTY or using a minimal window manager? I think so - here's a non-comprehensive list of tools I use all the time, what they're for, and how they can replace (or supplement) a GUI application.

The obligatory tmux, vim, and git, for writing and distributing code and text.
nmtui (network-manager-tui), htop and btop for resource management. top is good but these are better.
newsboat(+podboat) for rss feeds and podcasts.
mpv, ncmpcpp/mpd/mpc, and imv for music/video. Does mpv count? It can run on a tty, but it's for displaying video. If the requirements are 'text only', it does not, and I'd have to replace imv with catimg.
aerc and mbsync (now named isync) for email, with Thunderbird as an occiasional backup.
weechat for IRC, and profanity for XMPP. scli is a tui for signal-cli I've used on occasion, but am moving away from signal.
lynx and links for browsing www, amfora for gemini, and bat, less, or reader (https://github.com/mrusme/reader) for piping text.
nethack or crawl for some entertainment.
keepassxc-cli, but I usually use keepass. I could switch to pass; I have used it before.
openconnect, for a work VPN, on the work computer.

Stuff I can't replace (yet):

a www browser - lynx and links are not good enough for more than casual browsing, and most of the time pages are a chore to navigate and look broken.
the whole email suite that Thunderbird provides - caldav and carddav syncing and an autocompleting address book. Maybe I just have to bite the bullet and switch to mutt+abook?

I usually use sway or i3 as a window manager, but I could configure tmux to behave kind of the same way. In fact I might do that for fun; give up a traditional for a while. There are a few other GUI tools too, but those are easily replaced. I think I could do it - it seems pretty fun! I might need to look into how to do colorschemes or something like gammastep on a TTY. Maybe I could cheat and use netsurf-fb, too...

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