How can I go about using the tty only on my system

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I wanted to have a separate laptop where I only use the terminal for my use cases. At the moment I am somewhat confident using the terminal, but I think limiting myself to tty only would build my confidence even more. Any tips?

EDIT: I am already using nvim and I already have installed a minimal distro (Arch). I just need advice on how to actually run this system effectively.

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Great list, thank you!

I'd like to add MPV. It's a video player that works from the tty using a framebuffer. So if you run "mpv path/to/video/file" it will play the video! Just learn the keybinds first so you're not stuck with it. In fact, that applies to all of the framebuffer programs.

Yes I'm familiar with mpv. I thought I needed to have xorg or a display server running for it to work, thanks!