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Jun 15, 2025 1 hr 12 min

619: The Trouble with TUIs

from LINUX Unplugged Hosted by Jupiter Broadcasting

We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules darnir's TUI Report zee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust Helix Editor Browsh — fully-modern text-based browser ddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminal Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust elia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more. kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal castero: — TUI podcast client for the terminal textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI. gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix. orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux cmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs. tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer rainfrog — 🐸A database management TUI jqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jq andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell iamb — A Matrix client for Vim addicts parllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers. russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client) wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge Shyfox's TUI Challenge results Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal. Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon. Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

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Chapters

  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 1:49 Housekeeping
  3. 3:28 ASCII Adroitness
  4. 7:07 Mid-Week Mayhem
  5. 20:56 Big Trouble in Little TUI
  6. 38:20 You and What TUI?!
  7. 47:49 Terminal Tally
  8. 51:59 Feedback
  9. 55:37 Boosts
  10. 1:09:46 Pick
  11. 1:10:38 Outro

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