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How can I go about using the tty only on my system (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to have a separate laptop where I only use the terminal for my use cases. At the moment I am somewhat confident using the terminal, but I think limiting myself to tty only would build my confidence even more. Any tips?

EDIT: I am already using nvim and I already have installed a minimal distro (Arch). I just need advice on how to actually run this system effectively.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Messaging, reading, school work, watching anime, music, web browsing (may not be able to do this one nicely though). My use cases are very simple to implement on tty-only I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is possible to watch movie files rendered in ascii with ffmpeg but I wouldn't recommend it. Playing videos any other way requires a graphical interface.

Web browsing is possible with links, w3m and eww-mode on emacs.

You will struggle with school work. Eduroam is hard to connect to using the CLI for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was able to use mpv to watch some anime I had downloaded on tty. Does this mean this was only possible because I already had xorg installed and running (I was using qtile prior to that)? I'm not sure if that's how that works though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah you've got xorg running if graphics are being drawn, like windows or specifically windows with borders