• _donnadie_@feddit.cl
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      5 hours ago

      Call me a hater, but TUIs are just filler for the modern wm ricer. I see new ones pop up everyday lol

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        5 hours ago

        hater!

        (but for real, I love a well-done TUI. Scriptability of CLIs is nice but sometimes the in-between of a good interface while remaining embedded in the shell works so well. Something like vifm allows me to zoom around with fzf, select things by regex or rename with vidir, move and package with rsync or tar, all without ever leaving my terminal context)

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          1 hour ago

          hater!

          Can’t say I didn’t ask for it lol

          I get their usability too. It’s understandable if you have to access a server remotely and you want some sort of interface for some software without loading the server with a lot of packages like gtk, qt or stuff like that. I said it mostly to jokingly dunk on the newer arch/omarchy users with their fancy hyperland setups :P

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        5 hours ago

        Your torrent box should not need a WM to download torrents, and given the dynamic nature of a torrent download (speed/peers/pieces), a one-shot cli wont cut it either.

        A TUI is a perfect use-case for torrents, though I havent seen it done well in either transmission or aria2