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Is it possible to use exclusively a TTY on Linux? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That depends entirely on what you want to / need to do with your PC.

As a teenager some 15 years ago I did use a TTY only setup on an 800 MHz Pentium for... Months, I guess? Obviously I wasn't doing anything too immediately productive back then; I was mostly either compiling kernels or playing nethack with the wiki open in (e)links via screen for multiplexing. It was an intensely comfy experience as I recall, just a small handful of processes running at any given time.

[–] Ignacio@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to study through my documents without feeling the tempation of playing doom, or watching some YouTube videos, or scrolling memes mindlessly on Kbin. Those thoughts lead me to perform those tasks. Having ADHD sucks.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I suppose that could work. Just get a framebuffer PDF reader going and you're off to the races. Found this one via Google:

https://github.com/aligrudi/fbpdf

Probably won't play too well with terminal multiplexing / split windows (tmux, screen), but you could probably have the reader on e.g. TTY2 and a multiplexer on TTY1 for other stuff.