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How mouse-less can you make Linux?
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Step 1: open a terminal emulator of your choice. There's no step 2 because you are already done. All features, 0 dependency on your mouse.
You're welcome :)
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
You could use terminal for everything, but first you must learn to use terminal.
Even better, after your machine boots up, press ctrl+alt+F(3-6) to access TTY sessions and then there is no mouse at all. Plenty of TUI apps work just fine here too.
Don't install a GUI and you can just skip this step
Difference being you can still do things like launch steam games as long as you have a DE installed even if you’re using TTY primarily.
I was mostly being tongue in cheek, but I think it might be possible to launch steam in big picture mode, rendered by Gamescope, from the TUI. No DE required.
Oooh fascinating! I’m gonna have to try that myself. Bring us back to DOS days of computing.
Yes this works but not with flatpak steam unfortunately.
Unfortunately there is often a use case for mouse that is hardly doable without, such as nondestructive video editing or image editing. I even use the mouse in Vim. Why is there this obsession not to touch the mouse??
Some people just don't want to move their hands off the keyboard, it can be an incredibly productive workflow if you're used to it.
My point is, it depends on the workflow and the tools. Try editing complex images with keyboard alone with GIMP or Inkscape. I'm a Vim user and used tiling window managers for years, so I know exactly what you mean with keyboard centric workflow being productive. But sometimes ignoring the mouse can make the workflow harder, not easier. Off course it always depends on what you actually do.
Edit: Guess I answered my ... question (even though it wasn't a question). Never mind.
It sounds like OP wants a "mouseless except for gaming" setup, no mention of image or video editing. Sounds like the slippery slope into ergo-mechs tbh