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If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I'd be incredibly thankful

I swear that all the stuff I find is like super in depth technical stuff that just loses me in no time flat

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[–] 1_4M_N008@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

It seems an opportunity to ask my stupid questions.

Q1. If I am going to build my minimum linux installation without a GUI, does this require a display manager?

Q2. is there other way to interact with my machine other than tty

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Q1: No, it does not require X. But some software even if not graphical, requires X libs for whatever reason (e.g. Using Qt)

Edit: to answer Q2: I don't think there is technically a way to interact with the system without a TTY but thats technicalities. Your more practical answer is to use SSH to log in and interact. This is how most IoT things work which run Linux and have no display capability at all.

[–] 1_4M_N008@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

thanks, but is there way to address some limitation (e.g. only one came to my mind scroll back.)

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Use screen?

Maybe I don't understand what you're after. But 99.9% of Linux systems don't use X. But none of those are desktop PC's.

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