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Have you ever tried using the terminal exclusively for your day-to-day usage for any amount of time? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How was it? What programs did you use?

I want to try it, but the browser thing is a deal breaker I think.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I try to make a habit of using the terminal for as much as I can, which honestly is a lot. I've even found a way to use it at work.

One day, I plan to run Linux without a window manager, maybe even without xorg entirely, using the tty's exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

tbh, i also just ended up this way out of habit. the only thing i need outside of my terminal is my hardened firefox. i've tried surf and other similar browser's but i do plenty of web development for myself/school/contract gigs so i can't reasonably escape the browser world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

How do you plan to browse the internet?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

There are things like w3m and other text browsers. I could maybe even get away with curl if I knew it better.

I watch a lot of YouTube, so I could maybe utilize the YouTube downloader cli tool so I can watch them locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Some video players (like mpv) allow you to stream directly from Youtube, with no need to download the full thing.