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Text-Based User Interfaces (TUI; CLI) ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ–ฎ

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Forum for advanced users who grok the power of text-based apps, the advantage of tmux/GNU screen, the keyboard and who often find the mouse a hinderance to a fast workflow. A text-based UI is also a decent escape from enshitified resources.

This forum broadly covers tools, hacks, and advocacy of text-based environments.

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[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you couple it with tvterm, mc, and NuShell you get a delightful and perfectly usable TUI desktop experience.

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Kinda reminds me of TempleOS now that I look at it

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup, I use it! A nice, intuitive sweet spot between Nano and arcane monsters like vim.