The premise
I want to challenge myself to see just how much I can accomplish with only a TTY at my disposal.
The results
This is a table of the general things I was able to do, summed up.
I'll probably update this from time to time.
| Task | Was I able to do it? | What was the experience like |
|---|---|---|
| Emailing | 🟡 Yes, but it's not easy. | The drawbacks were that I couldn't actually send emails, only look at them. |
| Browsing | 🟢 Yes! | There were many options, and a lot of basic websites worked on most. On browsh, you could probably get all websites (except video ones) to work. |
| Discord | 🟢 Yes! | Using discordo, it worked like a charm. |
| 🟡 Yes, but with limitations. | Using tuir, I could browse reddit very easily, but I could not login as this requires a graphical browser. | |
| Gaming | 🟡 Difficult, but possible. | Playing games was a huge challenge, but eventually I managed to get a gameboy emulator working. There are also a lot of other good terminal games, but it's not ideal for gaming. |