Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Command Line Tools Setfont, Write, and Wall" video.

I generally use w instead of who, less typing that way. Yeah I know, weird coming from me. You can also use write and/or echo to output messages to GUI terminal sessions. For me they're under /dev/pts/[0-9]*. Though, in that case I'm not sure why you'd want to except for fun.
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@robsku1 Yeah, I get all of that and I've sent messages that way testing things out when I first learned how, but they often interfere with general terminal use and it's good manners to not interfere as well as won't be seen if they're in some GUI app at the time. If they're on the local network it's better to just get up and walk to them. I'm lazy, but not that lazy. Even if I'm in a huge complex I'll still walk 100 yards to say something to someone on the same network, and if they're not local, e-mail is better. On the other hand, if you're talking about pranking someone, then go for it, but in my experience people get annoyed by that more than not.
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