

The Trouble with TUIs | LINUX Unplugged 619
Jun 15, 2025
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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.
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Links:
- π₯ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- π» LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules
- darnir's TUI Report
- zee β A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
- Helix Editor
- Browsh β fully-modern text-based browser
- ddgr β π¦ DuckDuckGo from the terminal
- Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console β 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 β Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
- tenere β π€ TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
- elia β 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 β Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
- keepass-mode β Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
- gocheat β A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
- castero: β TUI podcast client for the terminal
- textual-web β Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
- todoist: Todoist CLI Client. β Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
- gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client β A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
- orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
- impala β π TUI for managing wifi on Linux
- cmus - C* Music Player β cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- systemctl-tui β A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
- tdf β A tui-based PDF viewer
- rainfrog β πΈA database management TUI
- jqp β A TUI playground to experiment with jq
- andcli β A 2FA TUI for your shell
- iamb β A Matrix client for Vim addicts
- parllama β TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
- russ β A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
- ytui-music β Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
- wiki-tui β A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
- tuifeed β π° A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
- yazi β π₯ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
- vault-tasks β TUI Markdown Task Manager
- Don's TUI Challenge blog β #TUIChallenge
- Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
- Himalaya β CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
- jellyfin-tui β Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
- Alacritty β A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
- apple/containerization β 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 β A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.