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> About three years back, I attempted to live entirely on the command line for 30 days > I lasted all of ten days > What follows are the applications I found
by zokier 7y ago
> About three years back, I attempted to live entirely on the command line for 30 days
> I lasted all of ten days
> What follows are the applications I found myself relying upon the most during those fateful ten days
Why is this a new article now? What has changed since the original article series? https://www.networkworld.com/article/3085139/30-days-in-a-terminal-day-1-the-essentials.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/3085139/30-days-in-a-te...
Considering that his experiment failed, I'm not sure how he can still claim "Quite honestly, it is entirely possible to live completely without a GUI (more or less)—even today, in 2019". Maybe it is true, but he hasn't demonstrated it.
I would have found it more interesting if he had focused more on how you could efficiently use cli etc, instead of finding most gui-like ncurses clones of popular applications.