The Trouble with TUIs | LINUX Unplugged 619

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:

• 💥 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.