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?

  •  livendie   ( @livendie@beehaw.org ) English
    3•11 months ago

    I’m a huge proponent of the command line, but you often spend more time learning tools and configuring your environment than getting work done.

    I agree with this. I remember spending soo much of my time learning and configuring my environment, the time just seemed to fly by.
    These days I prefer to just log into xfce and get some work done. I still use my sweet setup of bspwm from time to time tho, will not forget it.