STILL HERE STILL DOING IT.

Well, I went into Windows for a bit to play some Doom 3. Forced myself to use the windows CLI to get there, so as not to cheat. And the Windows cmd.exe is TERRIBLE. Or just massively different to the Linux CLI. Either way, not going CLI-only in Windows again, even if it does mean no games.

And cmus is still impressive. As is mplayer, when I’m not trying to watch something with fancy subs.

Something makes me think I’m starting to like this CLI lark.

I’m still at it.

So today was spent at school taking notes with nano, and utterly terrifying my classmates with the command-line goodness. This was a relative breeze compared to some of the setup tasks I’ve had! I’m still trying to work out how to get xterm’s colours changed - any tips would be very welcome!

Also, cmus (a console music player) is FANTASTIC. Pointed it at my music folder and it readily indexed the lot in about three minutes. Thank you @fanfani for the tip!

So the first time I played with Linux was in 1997. I was five years old. Thirteen years later, and I’m setting myself a challenge. For thirty days, I can only use text-mode applications. No Chrome, no Banshee, no GNOME, just ratpoison, w3m, mplayer, and the like. I’ll report in every day so you guys know I haven’t given up. First day, and I’m having trouble without the luxury of a mouse. … now to see if I can get that Tumblr gem to work.