@mathias @FailForward
This thread is pure gold for looking into cli software :D
Do you people use cli most of the time our of principle or is it a habit? I found myself using a lot of vim and terminal-based tools for personal stuff, but uni and other places still require word documents and stuff :(
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I use mastodon on my phone
to reply most of the time and on PC I type new stuff every morning, there really aren't any hotkeys I could use. But yeah, good to know.
Thanks for the list! I use some of these, although for knowledgebase and notes I find obsidian quite good. Not cli, but it runs smoothly and available on windows. And alacritty as a terminal is surprisingly good, tbh.
As for package manager - stock apt from my ubuntu-based pop-os is just good enough :p
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My laptop is on pop os with xmonad wm on top, works great. Although the pc is still on windows :(
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I just wanted to try something very configurable and minimal. Yeah, it is very good out of the box, I agree.
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That editing though: shitload -> load :D
On a serious note, I tend to use fullscreen stuff for the sake of focus. Sometimes it's splitscreen on windows, 50/50 between brave browser and whatever else, most of the time qt creator or matlab.
And in linux... Well, I tend to have 3-4 terminal apps in different workspaces, there is no real pattern there. Whatever works at the moment, that's the advantage of twm.
For me it is a mixture of reasons, where I think the main one is that I create distractions/challenges unrelated to anything else, in combination with keeping it "pure" and to "the core" of things. I can't even call it a habit these days, though I used to be quite hardcore at it, as I haven't used it much during the last 10 years, but am now getting back to it.
Having said that I love the look of nice cli software, especially when there is a lot of it on screen(s) at the same time. As close as I get to feel like a "hacker" in the eyes of "normal people" I guess, haha.
I just realised that you guys are on Mastodon so I'll keep the formatting simple (I had this written down with Markdown links and all, but I know that doesn't render well on Mastodon), but these are some of the software mentioned in this and another thread I have, so might as well summarise it here too:
Mail - NeoMutt with isync/mbsync
Calendar - khal with vdirsyncer
Todo - Taskwarrior or Todoman
Notes - nb
Bookmarks - nb
Knowledge base - nb
Editor - vim + addons
Terminal - Terminator or tmux and/or byobu
Shell - zsh
Shell add-on - Starship
File manager - Midnight Commander / ranger / nnn
Music player - ncmpc
Spotify client - ncspot
Disk usage - ncdu
Package manager - Homebrew
Torrent - RTorrent
I haven't gotten to add various chat/communication software to that list. I used to run all the "messengers" (MSN/ICQ/FB and of course IRC) in cli, but I haven't even started my refresh on those areas just yet, and now it would be more like Signal/XMPP/Matrix etc I guess.