Comment by caioricciuti

19 hours ago

I keep gravitating toward similar setups. Once you remove the option to fiddle with fonts and layouts, you're left with just the writing. Console-only Debian on an old laptop is about as distraction-free as it gets without going full typewriter.

The only thing holding me back from tty as desktop environment is terminal alt modes - i find it annoying when nvim leaves behind a ghost of itself

  • Doesn’t tmux support alternate screen. You could run everything in a tmux session and get alternate screen that way.