619: The Trouble with TUIs

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:00:00 -0700

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.

Sponsored By:

Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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.

LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Terminal Apps”

619: The Trouble with TUIs

370: PipeWire Progress