More of the Command Line
With my return to linux I've been using the command line more. Most of it is either simple 'here I want to run the updater command' or 'I want a specific thing' via apt rather than use the graphical managers for either because hitting ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal and then typing is faster.
However I have had some thoughts on how to move more of my non-gaming things to terminal to at least try out and see if I like working there as opposed to mousing around.
Gemini
Given Gemini is very much a text first images are the domain of whatever program you use philosophy terminal browsers are most definitely a thing.
HexDSL talking about Amfora and Lagrange
HexDSL gave both these browsers as recommendations. Lagrange is graphical, already installed, and I am quite happy with it. Amfora? May be about time to see what it's like browsing in a terminal. I've used lynx and W3M before so I'm not going in totally blind, but it will be a new experiance.
Word Processing
I.... frankly am intimidated by both Vim and Emacs (doom or otherwise.) Both feel like severe overkill for what I want to do, which is edit text files. Sure there's Nano, which has been an old standby for how long now? I dunno and i don't plan on looking it up because that would be cheating. However I'm giving Wordgrinder a try both because it has options to save to .ODT and .RTF , but also because it allows a familiar to me menu system that is immediately there yet out of the way until you hit Esc. Then you get a top of the screen use the arrow keys to move around with shortcut listings for commands interface that I've seen since the hory old days of Word Perfect 5.1.
Navigation
This goes into two areas; filesystem navigation, and actually navigating the system.
For now I'm considering Midnight Command if I want to poke around directories as I had used it a little in the past but I had never gotten truely comfortable with the interface. Also, I have heard good things about nnn as well as other programs. More research will be needed.
If I were to do everything in a pure text only interface I'd definitely consider using tmux so i could have several programs running at once, have them all share screen real estate as if it were a tiling window manager, or other thigns one would think you'd need a GUI to manage. However This is me in a terminal window inside of a gui, so I have tabs to work with in that window as well as more familiar-to-gui-users tools to use.
That said, I am considering Touch Cursor Linux so I can keep my fingers on the home row more.
Brodi Robertson explaining Touch Cursor Linux
Etc
Honestly? This is mostly to try getting out of the rut I'm in and see if changing my workflow would yield better results. Technically you can launch any program you like from the command line, especially if you already have a proper desktop enviroment up and running. Heck I could watch VLC, Steam and or Chrome from the command line if I wanted. This isn't 'I'm going to do EVERYTHING from the command line.' This is 'I want to see if doing a few things from the command line will be better than the alternitive.'
Have any advice?
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