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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk

This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.

toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.

thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.

This article spotlights alternative tools to compress, a utility that reduces the size of files.