Trying to use the tui browsers would be pure torture for me. Pictures, icons, custom colors, sizing and layouts are so integral to the web… hell even markdown in a terminal isn’t ideal since it can’t do header sizes.
Tuis do make sense for a lot of things, but not for media heavy things like the web.
tbh, i also just ended up this way out of habit. the only thing i need outside of my terminal is my hardened firefox. i’ve tried surf and other similar browser’s but i do plenty of web development for myself/school/contract gigs so i can’t reasonably escape the browser world.
I try to make a habit of using the terminal for as much as I can, which honestly is a lot. I’ve even found a way to use it at work.
One day, I plan to run Linux without a window manager, maybe even without xorg entirely, using the tty’s exclusively.
How do you plan to browse the internet?
Trying to use the tui browsers would be pure torture for me. Pictures, icons, custom colors, sizing and layouts are so integral to the web… hell even markdown in a terminal isn’t ideal since it can’t do header sizes.
Tuis do make sense for a lot of things, but not for media heavy things like the web.
There are things like w3m and other text browsers. I could maybe even get away with curl if I knew it better.
I watch a lot of YouTube, so I could maybe utilize the YouTube downloader cli tool so I can watch them locally.
dude i tried this cause i also watch a lot (admittedly, too much) youtube and it’s just too much of a bother on my slow ass machine. invidious helps.
Some video players (like mpv) allow you to stream directly from Youtube, with no need to download the full thing.
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tbh, i also just ended up this way out of habit. the only thing i need outside of my terminal is my hardened firefox. i’ve tried surf and other similar browser’s but i do plenty of web development for myself/school/contract gigs so i can’t reasonably escape the browser world.