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Re: "I am thinking about going terminal only. however I don't..."
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.
Jul 18 · 6 weeks ago
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.
i try to solve this problem by using gentoo use flags, and deciding on dependencies myself at compile time.
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.
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.
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