I stick to CLI's and TUI's and use zellij as my window manager. This way the configs and muscle memory I develop on my work macbook are transferrable to the linux box I use for personal projects, and visa versa.
It seemed a bit limiting at first, but after adapting to it I feel like it was the right move. GUI's represent a sort of explosion in the set of valid states for software to be in, and I find that software which opts out of trying to support that explosion tends to work better, likely because the maintainer just has less to worry about.
BirAdam 8 minutes ago [-]
Isn’t that what resolution aware ttys and screen accomplish?
floathub 26 minutes ago [-]
Emacs text interface, Emacs GUI interface, and ... sorry what's the third one?
:-)
Early Reuters and Bloomberg terminals had a text-centric aesthetic.
AFAIK on a PC, when booted into text-only mode, you are still using a bit-mapped framebuffer. From my experiments you can mix graphics and text.
horsh1 13 minutes ago [-]
Well, if we count claude as tui.
allanrbo 19 minutes ago [-]
Like the days of Norton Commander
hypfer 25 minutes ago [-]
Ah yes, website talks about "the bloat of x11 and Wayland", and doesn't even scroll correctly on Firefox mobile likely due to some JavaScript fuckery.
Practice what you preach. And practice first.
orangea 8 minutes ago [-]
I don't see any suspicious JS on the page, so I suspect it's a styling issue triggering some inefficiency in Firefox. There are animations and text-shadows.
dormo 22 minutes ago [-]
Scrolling is pretty bad on Firefox desktop as well. So bad that I didn't want to finish the article.
Why do people do this?
19 minutes ago [-]
Rendered at 22:06:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
It seemed a bit limiting at first, but after adapting to it I feel like it was the right move. GUI's represent a sort of explosion in the set of valid states for software to be in, and I find that software which opts out of trying to support that explosion tends to work better, likely because the maintainer just has less to worry about.
AFAIK on a PC, when booted into text-only mode, you are still using a bit-mapped framebuffer. From my experiments you can mix graphics and text.
Practice what you preach. And practice first.
Why do people do this?