My 5 Favourite Curses Based Programs

[@diegocastellanos9596]

htop is one of my favourite tools but "glances" is just amazing. Thanks

[@RoboNuggie]

Glances is pretty good..... thank you for commenting Diego...

[@alucardbasterd3413]

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention". In the age of distractions, it's nice to see something different of those mainstream sugary UIs. Nice video.

[@RoboNuggie]

Yes! Thank you!

[@TheSulross]

would love to see a boutique Linux distro that has an entirely TUI ncurses desktop

[@RoboNuggie]

That would be something different....

[@DevDungeon]

awesome tips!! there are so many hidden gems in the debian repos

[@RoboNuggie]

That's good to know! :-)

[@firstuser5448]

ncdu is really cool, thanks for the recommendation!

[@RoboNuggie]

It is indeed...

[@ximalas]

I figured I should supply the origins of the software mentioned: sysutils/ncdu, (sysutils/htop), sysutils/py-glances@py36 (installs as py36-glances), misc/mc (As someone who previously used Norton Commander, I feel so at home in Midnight Commander), audio/moc, and games/bastet. Now I'll try out glances.

[@RoboNuggie]

Thank you ximalas - I should have done the origin thing.... Midnight Commander does feel so natural to use... I always install it....

[@TheSulross]

and notcurses is implementing the kitty terminal standard for text mode inline images - which is superior to the old Sixel standard

[@jali4000]

mc is brilliant, it's mind boggling graphical file managers don't do split view other than Dolphin, which is a great filemanager but for me not worth it to switch to KDE from WindowMaker or CDE which are my usual go to's, with mc as my file manager if I just want to wander around and not use the command line

[@RoboNuggie]

Mc has been my life saver on so many occasions... there is an Amiga inspired filemanager for FreeBSD that uses Directory Opus an a design inspiration....its called worker...runs under X11 and is in the ports and okgs - it is actively developed and has been around for 20 years or so....and for me fits in really well with Motif design...

[@jali4000]

@yarn rav a lot do actually, I've come to find out, thanks for reminding me about ranger though

[@studiokadaver]

You got a follow just for mentioning Amiga while mentioning the great Midnight Commander

[@RoboNuggie]

Thank you! Very much appreciated..... :-)

[@jms019]

You didn’t mention that mc uses the mouse at least where I saw a colleague using it on Ubuntu. Yes it does and I spent a while trying to understand how. It’s DEC’s mouse strokes feature and emulated by Putty. We have very similar music collections

[@RoboNuggie]

Oh..... I forgot it does....I just use the keyboatd when using mc..... :-)

[@dogzdude]

MOC plays network streams too, i.e streams from internet radio. Neat!

[@mtalhakhalid1679]

Cool look like old dos era tools or BIOS of that era

[@SDZeeAy]

MC Source Code?

[@imperatusmauser7096]

Ay, what is that music you've got playing? I really like ambience