@alina personally I can also recommend good #CLI tools that just work.

• #mc (#MidnightCommander)
• #neomutt
• #aewan (for designing #TUI interfaces)
• #enc
• #btop
• #ytdlp
• #lynx / #LynxBrowser
• #curl
• #toybox (which is a minimalist #userland for #Linux)
• #ne (nice editor)
• #nvChad (when you want to turn #neovim into an #IDE but don't know where to start)

And many more.

• Cuz I work on the idea of a #MDA / #80x25-centric Linux-distro (@OS1337) that is focussed on #FrugalComputing!

@rl_dane @OS1337 well, MDA as in the standard that every PC graphics card since the #MDA still supports - not just VGA…

• For #Terminals the 25th (rarely "0th") line is used to display status information in lieu of "lock lights" or other indicators so unlike on a #PC it's not useable there...

Obviously one can set / customize the default Terminal Output Size in the #Kernel configs at build, but #80x25 (or at least #80x24) should be supported everywhere.

• Actual MDA displays are expensive collectibles and in lieu of that I'd rather configure the 1st serial port ( tty0 aka. COM1) to spit out a 9600/8/N/1 #console when #VGA or similar video output doesn't exist.

But even the shittiest GPU will do MDA without drivers on #ix86 & #amd64 because that's some #BIOS routine command and part of the backwards compatibility of every single 2D/graphics chip I've heard of that isn's a mere 3D accelerator with 2D passhtrough…