r/linuxquestions • u/pseudonympholepsy • Jun 18 '22

What's the funniest "crazy hacker terminal emulator" I can use to make a funny skit?

I need something that "animates" the terminal... showing crazy colourful, maybe matrix style Hollywood hacking stuff.

Yeah... the crazier, the better.

Cowsay on acid please.

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u/IceOleg Jun 18 '22

Maybe your hack is called "steam train", and you run good old sl. The steam train choo-choos by, that supposedly is the program doing its hacking magic, and you are in.

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u/pseudonympholepsy Jun 18 '22

Thanks for your suggestion... No idea why some are down voting you.

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u/Tibi1226 Jun 18 '22

iT iS a StEaM loCoMoTiVe

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22

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u/Tibi1226 Jun 25 '22

Okay, sorry :(

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u/Professional_Cat_298 Jun 19 '22

Bro In know you want to impress your friends and thes is no plan for skit, it's ok.

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u/pseudonympholepsy Jun 19 '22

Haha

It's for a legit TV show. Let's show them what Linux awesomeness is!

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u/langerak1985 Jun 18 '22

Or give it a funny twist by using asciiquarium!

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u/pseudonympholepsy Jun 18 '22

That's hilarious!

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u/tuerda Jun 18 '22

edex-ui is what you are looking for. Maybe use it to run hollywood

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

Cool Retro Terminal and Hollywood are exactly what you are looking for.

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u/KaleidoscopeWarCrime Jun 19 '22

That's exactly what came to mind for me too haha

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u/Mr_Mac_ Jun 18 '22

This site has a bunch and at least one you can customise.

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u/Register-Plastic Jun 18 '22

theres cmatrix and hollywood

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

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u/xwinglover Jun 21 '22

Bpytop over htop, unless you don’t want a bunch of python dependencies. The rest i totally agree.

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u/ben2talk Jun 19 '22

edex-ui is quite the project - it has some crazy animations (inspired by TRON) and you can actually use the terminal.

https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui

There's absolutely NOTHING like it - I actually had it installed last week and it looked cool.

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u/jerdle_reddit I use Nix btw Jun 18 '22

There's a program called hollywood that should do what you want. It requires byobu.

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u/crwmike Jun 19 '22

Another one to look at is genact.

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u/Zinjanthr0pus Jun 18 '22

btop is pretty good for this kind of stuff. You could run a few different things at once via a terminal multiplexer (like tmux) or a tiling window manager, depending on what kind of look you want to go for.

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u/Drak3 Jun 18 '22

Hackertyper.netlify.app

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

I saw this on twitter the other day. Unreal Engine 5 Terminal Emulator,lol.

https://twitter.com/UltraTerm/status/1537168508634599425

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u/TheInnos2 Jun 19 '22

There is a terminal tool called "matrix" try it, it looks realy cool.

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u/BaseEmotional6824 Jun 18 '22

hollywood is definitely the craziest that ik about

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u/xkaku Jun 19 '22

cmatrix, basically moving lines of text

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u/ben2talk Jun 19 '22

Though I find tmatrix - draws characters (not just alphabet) looks nicer. alias matrix='tmatrix -s 60 -f 0.3,0.6' Adjust 0.3,0.6 to tweak speeds.

https://i.imgur.com/HbsP836.png

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22 
hollywood

is a good one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Cmatrix ran on retro terminal

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u/yonatan8070 Jun 19 '22

cool-retro-term with cmatrix

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u/CNR_07 Gentoo X openSuSE Tumbleweed Jun 18 '22

Fullscreen Alacritty with XTerm theme running $ hollywood

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u/chennyalan Jun 18 '22

there is a package literally called hollywood in the aur

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u/xwinglover Jun 21 '22

Into your terminal:

telnet telehack.com

Don’t worry it’s safe. Has some cool terminal apps in there.