It started as a stupid project cause I was bored. How much can you actually do without a windowing environment?
After finding out how to post to lemmy from a TTY, I realized that I can do most things I do daily using text.
Browsing the web in links, which opens all sorts of files in the corresponding programs if configured correctly.
Opening images in fbi, PDFs in fbpdf, listening to music in cmus, watching movies in mplayer, using e-mail in alpine, creating documents in vim and latex, …
The only thing that still requires a GUI is image editing and a few websites I need that don’t work without JavaScript.
And it’s actually really nice…more focused, without loading times, animations, popups, ads, or other distractions, and everything is scriptable.

Anyway, sorry for the blog post.

  • NigelFrobisher
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    1 month ago

    Nowt wrong with a tty interface. All you need is a gif->ASCII converter and you can view the images too.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
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      1 month ago

      The default video output device of a Linux TTY is the framebuffer.
      I have no issues viewing images and PDF documents, or watching videos.