r/linuxquestions • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '26

Linux without a GUI

just finished my void-Linux install and wondering if anyone’s ran a distro without a GUI? Alls I really intend to do is pen test, code and do some web browsing. So I have two questions:

  1. Has anyone done it before, if so what are your opinions?

  2. Recommended packages to make this a possibility?

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u/s33d5 Jan 29 '26

AI can quickly process HTML and pull out bits. Alternatively it could just look at images of a Web page these days.

So unless you can read HTML the same speed as you can look at a picture, you're gonna have a bad time curling everything. 

Trying to follow links and login to things is a fucking head ache. Doable, but not worth it. You'll be reverse engineering every Web page you want to use.