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Comment by 🚀 Remy

Re: "I am thinking about going terminal only. however I don't..."

In: s/Linux

There is the CLI club listing terminal programs:

— gmi.noulin.net/cliclub.gmi

🚀 Remy

Jul 18 · 6 weeks ago

7 Later Comments ↓

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:35:

yes, i also use moc for music, but alpine for email. (:

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:36:

daruma, i guess i need to open a separate thread to ask about music software. (:

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:45:

but can i add something?

cli is good, but to me cli app written in python or rust is worthless. i prefer native compiled programs, and programs that have not many dependencies. rust is impossible to compile, so even not speaking of cargo and its security riscs, rust alone is a huge dependency.

so two things i consider are if it is native code, and if it is lightweight, has not many deps. in that regard the browser i pointed out, which is based on chromium and written in rust, i don't use. i just thought that it might be something you are looking for, because it can open/render complicated pages, and it runs js, etc, far from being minimalistic. so netsurf is not cli, but is better.

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:47:

the tragedy of most of our linux distributions is that they already contain lots of dependencies and lots of interpreters. that's i guess also why people tend to navigate to simpler systems like netbsd.

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:48:

i try to solve this problem by using gentoo use flags, and deciding on dependencies myself at compile time.

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:51:

ok, another comment.

if you will write some programs and you would like them to be cli or to work in console, you may consider using C library like newt to create uis but in console.

and here i would like to tell that freepascal has a set of libraries called freevision - very advanced to create terminal user interfaces.

🐙 norayr · Jul 18 at 21:54:

and most importantly. what would you use to connect to wifi? i would suggest you avoid using heavy desktop environments, since they are already underlying complexity and heavy burden on the cpu. then how do you connect to wifi without ui tools?

i suggest using wpa_supplicant directly. you probably have network manager service in your distribution.

just disable it. use some lightweight window manager where you open your terminals. and wpa_supplicant to connect to wireless networks directly.

Original Post

🌒 s/Linux

I am thinking about going terminal only. however I don't know how could I achieve it since I need some GUI apps for work and university. for IRC I could use weechat which would work fine but what about youtube,telegram,github? there is no way I could use them inside terminal. but what I could do is use as much terminal as I can!

💬 freedom2932 · 18 comments · 6 likes · Jul 17 · 6 weeks ago