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Comment by 🐙 norayr

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

In: s/Linux

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.

🐙 norayr

Jul 18 · 5 months ago

4 Later Comments ↓

❄ space_elf · Sep 17 at 18:10:

I like using ytfzf for youtube in cli :)

🚀 dosmaen · Nov 25 at 05:47:

I love pushing the limits of what can be done in the terminal. I'm using Arch Linux with AwesomeWM and try to use the terminal to do as much as possible.

🚀 maha · Dec 09 at 20:07:

all the best, let me add a recommendation - mc a.k.a. midnight commander - you'll wonder why you used a gui file manager after using it

🐸 HanzBrix · Dec 09 at 20:27:

I have been trying to/considering going full console as well, so I really appreciate the contributions from everyone here!

I have a question though! Are there any "office" packs for console anymore? I like to do spreadsheets of stuff and a console would be epic for this, typing tools as well.

A little input tidbit, in my search for console things, I found i3 which is a Linux WM, that is based on a console first, tiling system, basically ignoring the mouse. Most of it's tools is configured or even directly used from a console.

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 · 22 comments · 8 likes · Jul 17 · 5 months ago