Minimalism

What do you mean? At my last job I had a minimal arch setup where I ran dwm+st and had no issues. Surf is akward to use, and has a few weird quirks so I used firefox instead of it, but on the whole I don't see how using suckless tools is restrictive at all

I like making stand-alone binaries with 0 dependencies other than the Linux kernel. They run anywhere. It's actually simpler and much easier to understand what's going on when you talk to the kernel directly since there isn't shitloads of complicated user space code in-between. Also, the kernel interfaces are much better designed compared to junk like the C standard library.

Some of it's a meme. Shooting for a system which has stable and (if needs be) maintainable software which you can rebuild from source if necessary is a laudable goal. However some of the software's a meme, some suckless programs force you to make configuration changes to the source code and recompile, while it could be argued that this could be done with dotfiles to maintain easier customization and so on.

We're at the stage where all the major desktop environments are enormous and have very unpredictable behavior after several upgrades. Things like automounting and hotplugging should be taken care of by the OS and not a bunch of layered crap living under the aegis of KDE or GNOME.

This is how you lose a drive with bad cable.
Not to mention how the entire linux devs forgot turning off write caching for obviously known external drives
Why?
performance > stability even if you lose your data (tm)
performance > stability
:^)

She wanna get pregnant my baby! ;)

If she heard it, she would be happy!

Never suggested it. Daemons aren’t the kernel.

a. bloated software, many devs.
b. same, no bloat, does job.
c. like b, few devs.
b best; only get a and c, both break due to no support or bloat. Pick your poison.

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Just a quick reminder that measuring software bloat by its LoC count is the same level of retarded as measuring engine power by its displacement.

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True but at some point you can't audit a 100K SLoC application.