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I've done that on my potato, I installed Debian without a DE. It's great, but I needed an insane amout of time to make it actually usable.
What do you mean by "make it usable"?
For example : I write in French. It wasn't easy for me to have a way to type É or Ç. Tmux wasn't easy to configure. It took time to understand how to use USB drives. And now I didn't use it for some time, and I'd have everything to learn again if I had to turn it on.
I'm no computer scientist. All these things may be trivial for someone who works with computers, but it's not my case 😅.
Totally understandable. 👍