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Is it possible to use exclusively a TTY on Linux? (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years 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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[-] davefischer@beehaw.org 4 points 3 years ago

I ran Unix at home all through the 90s with just serial terminals, didn't switch to X until 2000. But... I wasn't using the web. There's a lot of sites now that just don't work with lynx. (Is links better on that point? I don't know.)

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