2d ago

Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now

I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

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Just wait until you find the fun TUI utilities, ill share a few:
Shell: Fish (has powerful auto-complete, very fast, written in rust)
Montior: Btop (monitors all system resources and processes)
Fetch: Fastfetch (perfect for showing off on !unixporn@lemmy.world, for !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone Hyfetch is reccomnded)
Brower: BrowSH (its a browser in your terminal)
Text Editor: Vim (the best text editor, remeber to use esc + : + q to close or wq to write close vim. However when you open vim you can never quit)
File manager: Ranger (if cd + ls is too inconvenient)
Games (yes you can even play games in the terminal): 2048, Chess-TUI, NSnake, and Micro Tetris
More cool TUI tools
- next step to full on conversion is making your own dotfiles repo :)
  
  Then get an old librebooted Thinkpad X230 with Arch GNU/Linux (and remind eveyone it's GNU + Linux) :3
- I have to check out some of these!
  As for the browser, how does it display sites? Does it display images/video/play audio or is it mostly for just the text based stuff? How about ads/adblockers?
  
  My guess is it works like Lynx.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
  You mainly get basic text formatting with some colors. It's kinda neat. I imagine text heavy sites like Wikipedia (or Lemmy instances! Maybe other Fediverse stuff?) would be decent with it.
  You can open media with external applications it says though.
  Also hey, it's not running all that fancy privacy-killing JavaScript! :D
  In some situations I imagine it's fantastic for making your browsing look like you're working on something important, if you have a problem with nosy shoulder-surfers.
  
  Thanks, I'll definitely have to try these, they look neat!

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