With the Termux + PyPi repositories you can do basically the same as you would do in a normal Linux terminal and it’s great.

I’m not a fan of having many apps on my phone and with Termux I can have yt-dlp, ffmpeg and even magick to do almost anything I want, it’s just great and I don’t know how Termux is not more popular, I hope more people will find sense in it and use it too if they see a use for it.

  • Rikj000English
    16•3 months ago

    I love Termux too,
    but honestly I have little use-cases for it.

    Back when I ran a server,
    it was nice to be able to SSH into it through Termux from time to time to do some maintenance on the go.

    Nowadays I still use Termux to ping/telnet devices sometimes, to see if they’re reachable, also on the go.

    But other then that,
    I don’t know what I’d use it for.

    Since imo, most CLI stuff is way easier behind a laptop/desktop, due to having a larger screen available to you, for easier:

    • Copy/pasting/dialing in long commands
    • Reading of long/large command outputs
    • @XirupOPEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      I think the same, I doubt that Termux will ever replace the comfort of a terminal on a laptop or desktop PC, but for certain occasions it is very useful, like avoiding downloading full apps when I can install only one package that does the same thing, in the case of yt-dlp.

    • m-p{3}English
      4•3 months ago

      I use it to download stuff using yt-dlp on the go with predefined output settings. I’ll share my setup soon, it generates a notification with the file preview when downloading, and update the notification when the download is completed.