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It's time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)
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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

My laptop is terminal-only as well.

The only difference is that I use hyprland and waybar because it looks a bit better and using the dynamic tiling is sometimes easier than operating tmux panes.

To add to her list of useful apps:

mpd - To play music/audio. There are plug-ins for tmux and waybar to show the song status

ncmpcpp - TUI mpd client

lynx - Sometimes you need a web browser

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Any reason it's not using zellij but still tmux? I thought this use case was basically what zellij was made for.

    To be clear, I'm seriously asking, I don't really use the terminal to host fully fledged applications/screens

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't tried zellij yet, but I'll give it a shot (thanks).

    If I had to guess, it's that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she's more comfortable with tmux.

    Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Agreed, i should also be trying zellij, but my tmux is so well configured (for my) and dracula-tmux has everything i’d want, so it’d be hard to leave that behind for a not otherwise specified benefit. speed i guess?

    considering that she’s using debian, i feel like she’s also living the peaceful life of not always chasing the latest shiny new tool, if the one she’s got is working well.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Hypr looks like overkill. I use Sway for a similar thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It is. The laptop was originally my testbed for trying hyprland so it had essentially nothing else installed, I just ended up using it as a portable terminal due to some unexpected traveling and I enjoyed the concept so I've kept it around.

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    • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    TIL about kmscon. Getting actually readable font sizes in a tty is so nice.

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I love this. I'm thinking of making another partition on my laptop so I can have a separate OS with no desktop environment. Reclaiming my attention span has kind of been a project for me this year. I was casually exploring how to make a setup like this with an e-ink screen, but e-ink displays are more expensive that I was hoping.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    They're way too expensive especially on bigger sizes. I want one as my second monitor but I won't be able to get one soon.

    By the way, you can still create a distraction-free environment for yourself with GUI. Just go with a minimal setup, something like Niri, Sway, river etc. (Openbox, bspwm, i3wm, Xmonad, dwm if you prefer X11).

    The key points for distraction-free is to have a minimal desktop and using a program launcher like d-menu, fuzzel or rofi. TUI programs also help a lot. This way you won't need a second OS setup and can do everything in the same installation because TTY is restrictive for certain things.

    There are also distraction-free GUI programs that you can use. For example I prefer ghostwriter as my go-to markdown editor, Apostrophe is also great if you prefer GTK. Depending on your use cases, there are a lot of programs like these.

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    So since tmux was mentioned I got to know. Anybody still use byobu anymore? I used it back in my early days (2009-2012) but that was quite a while ago. Last stable release was in Feblueberry so that's promising.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I used byobu waaaay back in the day. I think it was only for screen at the time, but I think it's for both now. I actually adapted the modules into my tmux configuration like 12 years ago, and am still using them to this day

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    It's funny how we have all the tech to make hyper-realistic everything, yet people now are suddenly nostalgic for PlayStation 1 era graphics, 8 bit pixel art, and fully offline 80s terminals to be productive.

    We also have a taste of the sort of AI they wrote scifi about, but everyone automatically sees how dystopian it can be in capitalism and rejects it automatically.

    Cyberpunk dystopia is literally becoming reality. Now all we need is Elon Musk sponsored cyberware, military grade shit that can get hacked just because.

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