Title says it all:
Using a linux operating system with no desktop environnement at all
Is it viable? Are there any big drawbacks? What's the best way to do it?
OS without a DE
Jose Clark
Zachary Sullivan
>LFS
Ah the memories.
Literally just init 3 though.
Mason Carter
This is called a headless server and is as common as water you massive twat
Landon Long
I obviously meant it as a daily personal use. I was not talking about servers.
Chase Young
Yes, that's called a WM
Ryan Garcia
It's not comfy at all.
Henry Ortiz
Yes, I know, such as herbstluftwm.
But what I really want to know is the viability of it, what are the drawbacks and what's the best WM in your opinion.
Those were my questions actually
Christian Murphy
Viable for what?
Browsing, playing videos or play games, no. You need a graphical environment for this. Whether or not you need a DE, is Up to your definition. I think a panel and a window manager is a DE and I dont really see the benefit of removing either.
You could for example not have a panel, but then certain tasks become tedious like observing battery status, change wifi or see the time. Obviously you can do without these on a desktop or if you think hotkeys make these easier to manage.
For other stuff, sure.
Grayson Jackson
>I obviously meant it as a daily personal use. I was not talking about servers.
you're only going to find out that most people using unix or linux with no desktop/windows systems are people that are running servers, managing servers, etc. I use ubuntu server every day to do just that
Nathaniel Howard
It's fine and normal as fuck op just look to the desktop threads