/mg/ - Software and Hardware Minimalism General

For discussing software and hardware minimalism and minimal computing lifestyle.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)

- Fewer bugs
- Better performance
- Lower memory footprint
- Better maintainability
- Higher scalability
- Longer software lifetime
- Smaller attack surface

ix.io/ZE2

Alternatives to Bloatware: github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

Window Managers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

Suckless: suckless.org/rocks

Cat-v.org: harmful.cat-v.org/software/

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.

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Other urls found in this thread:

github.com/arsv/minibase
st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback/
specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

oh look its another distro thread

i believe in minimalism but people here take it too far

Rate my setup, reddit.
OpenBSD and Gentoo
Ratpoison
Links and NetSurf
mksh/pdksh
urxvt on Gentoo, xterm on OpenBSD

(6/10)
(10/10)
(3/10)
(5/10)
(?/10)
(?/10)
(?/10)
(0/10)
(0/10)

Both excellent.
dwm
Great choice!
Both absolute garbage. urxvt is a dogshit. Vanilla st or patched st is the only way.

github.com/arsv/minibase
This project looks really interesting. Basically implementation of common used tools to build the base of Linux distro and ditch GNU, systemd and other shitware. Everything is implemented using Linux system calls, not even a specific libc dependency. But as far as I know it is not stable yet.

Another interesting alternative would be ubase & sbase (suckless) + hbase (Morphious project) + sinit. But it doesn't look that well maintained, most stuff stopped being developed in 2014.

I know xterm is bloated but it runs way faster than st. What is the point of minimalism if the minimal software is much slower?

I actually use st + dash for scripting, the lack of features makes it inferior for interactive use. The reason I use xterm on OpenBSD is that it's already in base. Is there any other terminal besides those 3 that is usable?

Anything specific? I can't think of anything really important. But yea in general if you want/need those features than st just isn't good enough.
Good point. Makes sense in that case.
Not minimalistic.