30 Day Challenge - Tiling Windows and TUI Programs

For the next 30- days, I'm giving myself a challenge--live in a tiling window manager and use only terminal-based applications (where possible). What will be the result of this experiment?

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[uponder]

I just recently switched to a shell only os, about a week and a half, and I don't forsee myself going back. The shell is so awesome. You really understand that a computer is built on the i/o model.

I just learned that I can get my weather report by typing curl wttr.in/ for current location and add a city wtte.in/City for specific cities.
I don't miss graphics.
The one thing I could not find was a way to view pdfs, but my solution to this was to add a printer/scanner.
I also added a Roku to my monitor for my streaming video, but I don't use that till it is bedtime, and I also got a remote with it so it makes it more functional than what I was doing before.
You should just go straight shell also.

[andreibogdan]

Good luck and have fun! 30 days full of adventure!

[rexevan]

Wohoooo. Tiling WM and Vim for 30 days. I'm gonna follow this series.

[anthonywalter]

These 30 days will allow us to learn even more about terminal and some tricks that solve and boost our daily work using linux
:) I'll follow these 30 days to grab some tips and tricks... because I still use to move, copy, paste, remove, edit in the old style, some others I can use the terminal to update, install etc, but honestly there's some moments that I forget how to comand.

[jagardina]

In the 90's I still did most work in a text window and used a utility called "screen". It's seems to be installed in my Linux Mate install I'm using now. It lets you use a hotkey to switch between up to 10 terminal windows in one terminal session. The thing that was really cool is that I could use it on my Sun workstation at work, disconnect while leaving the sessions running, then log back into the workstation from home using a dial-up, and reconnecting to the session to continue whatever I was doing. I'd have usually the first screen running my email client so I could quickly switch back to email, one screen would be running as sysadmin, another displaying log files or the console window, another running top, etc... Was a real time saver and very lightweight, particularly on the network.

Now there's a challenge, do everything in a single terminal window, no window manager...

[eekeipoh]

Awesome challenge Derek! You could use ffmpeg commands to make screenrecordings, sound included ;)

[jagardina]

Awesome challenge. I cut my teeth on terminal based computing in the 80s. As I commented before, VI/VIM are powerful editors. If you want to be really efficient, learn "ed" first. VI allow the use of ed commands which can be very efficient. There's a good video on Computerphile where Brian Kernigan explains where the name of grep came from. It was from ed.

[KevinBReynolds]

I like Ranger and use it a lot but just for simple tasks. If I need to do more serious work I find that Midnight Commander handles all that very well.

[rmcellig]

I was thinking of doing something similar recently. I started by using more of the CP command as well as the unzip command in the terminal. I'm really looking forward to how things work out for you and hopefully you will do daily updates. When working in the terminal does it really use less resources than a GUI equivalent?

[sebastiaanstoffels]

I did this challenge once. 1 year later, a full DE is no longer a thing in my world. I never went back!

[andrewpalm]

Derek, you might want to consider Sparky Linux Minimal CLI if you are going full terminal. It's based on Debian and would be nice and clean. I used it as a secondary distro some time ago and liked it.

[eekeipoh]

May I suggest this need and nifty little package called mps-youtube for YouTube browsing and playback. Out of the box it only plays audio with mpv, but you can edit the config so that it will play video in mpv. You could also easily download videos and/or convert to mp3.

[CrustyAbsconder]

Hey distrohuggers,

my install of ROSA R10 LXQt updated to wine 3.5 today, along with libreoffice 5.4.6.1, and a bunch of things that looked like dependencies to sound related things. It has been stuck at kernel 4.9.76 for a while, which is one of the reasons I have been thinking about trying Fedora 28 Beta or even Fedora Rawhide. Clementine updated to 1.3.1 which I think was the last version made nearly 2 years ago. ( Feel free to correct me ).

In the meantime, my favorite distro Mageia has dropped to # 31 for Distrowatch ratings in the last 3 months ( meaning 2018 ). But don't worry. They are hard at work on Mageia 7 and I am sure there will be some kind of pre-release testing image by August - hopefully sooner.

[gimcrack]

The only thing I don't do in a tiling window manager. Is use only a text browser. I know how to use w3m. But, I always use Firefox even in a window manager for internet surfing. Everything else I figure out how to just use CLI applications. Currently my favorite window manager is pekwm. I'm going to try soon without using a panel. I always had a panel. Let's see if I can live without a panel.

[DrDiemotma]

If you are installing plain Arch, not some spin-off - can you somehow record the installation? Maybe with the notebook in your back there? Since you usually include the installation process, your reaction would be interesting.

[KevinBReynolds]

I also used Lynx browser and liked it but have since moved to w3m with it's greater capabilities. It's not as intuitive as Lynx was for me and even seems a little clunky in some ways but it works better and does more, like some image capabilities.

[suleyth]

I wanna try this! Can you give me a guide of common TUI applications?

[steenbrlling]

U' should definitely try i3, which is sooo easy to config. And probably the arcolinux install, which lets you choose every single package...

[bsdtux]

Why did you do this to me? Why? I feel the urge to follow along now. Probably switch out qtile for i3 since I have already started learning i3. Though qtile being in python appeals to me since one of my projects is to write my own terminal app like lxterminal. Also great channel. Def worth subscribing to.

[KushtrimBresilla]

ffmpeg can be used to capture screen instead of OBS :)