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Is it possible to use exclusively a TTY on Linux? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Ignacio@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Hello everyone.

As the title says, I'm considering to ditch my graphical environment, because I find it very distracting, especially because I can think about playing video games or browsing the web mindlessly when I should be studying. And when I'm studying, those thoughts wander inside my head, and it sucks.

So, moving to a TTY environment, and using terminal programs, is the only way I find to avoid those intrusive thoughts and any other distraction. But I'm afraid that I'll be very limited somehow, because there aren't enough programs to fulfill my needs, or because those programs cannot perform as many tasks as their graphical counterparts.

I know some programs that I can use, like Links, Vim/Emacs, mpd, Ranger, and tmux, as well as some rogue-like games, like DCSS, Angband and NetHack. I also heard about framebuffer, but I don't know how it works.

Did any of you experimented with TTY? How long did you last inside it?

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[–] Reil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There are several servers, personal and professional, that I interact with entirely over SSH consoles. Lots of gnu screen, vi, bash scripts.

It's fine for the kind of tasks I'm doing with them (light coding, building, executing scripts, moving around files), but I wouldn't call it very fun or useful outside of that. I haven't tried like, opening e-mails (modern e-mails are like 95% images nowadays) and looking at non-plaintext documents is a no-go, too, so no PDFs in any meaningful capacity. No working with like, most webpages that aren't static text.

I guess if you're trying to use computers a lot less, rather than do all the things you could do before but in a terminal, that's good? But if you're looking to power your way through all the stuff a graphical environment could do, but in terminal, you're not gonna get anywhere.