I wanted to have a separate laptop where I only use the terminal for my use cases. At the moment I am somewhat confident using the terminal, but I think limiting myself to tty only would build my confidence even more. Any tips?

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    4 months ago

    It is possible to watch movie files rendered in ascii with ffmpeg but I wouldn’t recommend it. Playing videos any other way requires a graphical interface.

    Web browsing is possible with links, w3m and eww-mode on emacs.

    You will struggle with school work. Eduroam is hard to connect to using the CLI for example.

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      4 months ago

      I was able to use mpv to watch some anime I had downloaded on tty. Does this mean this was only possible because I already had xorg installed and running (I was using qtile prior to that)? I’m not sure if that’s how that works though.

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        Yeah you’ve got xorg running if graphics are being drawn, like windows or specifically windows with borders