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Over the past year as I've gotten into linux and self-hosting as a hobby, I've found an interest in using terminals and the "minimalist" feeling it gives me. Recently I found out there are terminal based web browsers and I'm really interested in the stripped down nature of web browsing it offers.

I already tried out W3M but I know there are a few others such as Lynx and Browsh.

I'm interested in hearing about other people's experiences with terminal web browsers, the pro's and con's and also the reasons for using them.

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Ah, it sounds similar to how I want to set up my headerless Raspberry Pi 5. I've been slowly learning tmux as well but it's nice to have detached sessions. I'll eventually add WeeChat as a sort of IRC bouncer for myself.

Right now it's just hosting a simple file server and a copy of Wikipedia. I've also been looking at BashWrite and Bash Static Site Generator as a simple command line blog to host for myself.

I quite enjoy the text only work environment. It's far less distracting :)