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On 2024-11-26, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, John McCue wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

From the ?text is good enough? department:
Title: Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:13:32 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/141194/using-only-a-linux-terminal-for-my-personal-computing-in-2024/


A month and a bit ago,?I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only
computer[1].
[?]

The only way to really find out was to give it a go.

I am glad you tried, sure it was a nice and very different
experience.

<snip>

Doing everything from the terminal just isn't viable for me,
mostly because I didn't grow up with it.

Fair enough, but at least you tried to see what things were
like for us old people. But yes, big changes like this are
hard to deal with.

I started before DOS existed on minis and I remember when
GUIs became a thing. I had to be dragged kicking and
screaming into that environment :) Still I pretty much live
in Xterms and only need a GUI for browsing and html email.

Through the wonders of alpine, atleast you can do html email in the
terminal as well! =)

I use the gui for web browsing, reading pdf:s and libreoffice. The rest
sits in the terminal (email, programming/scripting, tinkering, reading
text files).

I have been thinking about moving the reading part of web browsing into
the terminal as well, but haven't found a browser I'm happy with. Modern
web sites tend to become too messed up when viewed in the terminal. Maybe
it would be possible to write a kind of "pre-processor" that formats web sites with a text based browser in mind?

<snip>

Nice post!

I just use gopher for tons of web services. From youtube search, to Internet Archive
and TPB. And IRC+Bitlbee for Jabber, Mastodon and such.
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