Everything in moderation senpai. Some of it is good, going full Uriel is guaranteed to literally end your life.
Ayden Brooks
this
John Garcia
what are all these and where is xfce
Mason Turner
These are window managers. xfce is a Desktop environment, which is a full, Windows/MacOS-style desktop experience, and contains a window manager called xfwm4. Many /minimal/ posters prefer to use a window manager alone, sometimes combined with a separate bar program if they want one. With this, you'll still have a fully-capable experience, as you can launch all the usual programs through dmenu.
Luis Torres
also, xfce is a good choice if you want to be /minimal/, but aren't ready to go all the way into the WM autism.
Charles Hill
I got a Blackberry Curve 9350 from a friend who was going to throw it out a few days ago. I'm amazed by how fast and intuitive the interface is, and the physical keyboard and trackpoint are so satisfying to use. If it weren't for the piss poor web browsing experience, I would most definitely use this as my primary.
So, I was looking at the Blackberry Classic/Q10, but it seems to have fallen prey to the Android eco-system, and some people note experiencing common sluggishness. That's something I want to avoid, but I'm really hooked on this thing.
Can Android be reduced to something very minimal? e.g. How lightweight can it be when it's stripped down? I really just want to use my phone for E-mail, Twitter, web browsing, note-taking, audio playback, SMS/voice, and snapping shitty pictures when necessary... so, are there any minimalist solutions that run on modern hardware? I can't go full dumbphone, but anything is better than the barrage of unnecessary bullshit I get whenever I unlock my Galaxy S8.
Uriel was right. He tried to warn you. But you looked away.
John Evans
What's a display/login manager that's minimal and available in the Debian repositories?
I don't like logging in from the tty. Even an ncurses interface would do.
SLiM sounds good but it pulls a few dependencies.
Ryan Lewis
I need something minimal but practical to repace arch with, tired of kernel updates breaking shit. Can't decide between Void or Alpine. Help?
Josiah Collins
Void. Alpine was made for servers and embedded systems.
Connor James
I personally don't use one. Prior to that, I used either LightDM or SDDM.
Christopher Fisher
Whats a small (preferably systemd-less) distro to put on my 32GB intel atom laptop?
Ayden Lewis
any distro that fits under 32GB. read the resources in OP and come to a decision yourself there's a lot of distributed software in the works nowadays (ipfs, yacy, cjdns, matrix) but it seems like they all use shitty implementation languages or imperfect protocol designs. what does everyone here think about these? how would you improve on them, or do you think they're fine as-is?
Brandon Phillips
again in this endless cycle
Jayden Hall
man. we have a problem here. Can we work this out?
Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.
Luis Martinez
we get it, you're a control freak. either contribute to conversation or fuck off and stop polluting these threads with your broken-record posts
Ian Sanders
you aren't him. cause you don't end your post with uwu
Ethan Howard
The problem is that this leaves out a lot of "obscure minimal" OSes like the microkernel ones or illumos. You might say that some of those are too unpolished and unusable as a desktop OS, but then again so is FreeDOS.
Another thing is that this leaves out the ALSA and CRUX and Source Mage guides.
i'm not whom? i'm "Anonymous" and the only thing that matters is the content i post. something you ought have learned yourself from your time here, but you're still namefagging as if anyone cares
i provided suitable topics for discussion and you're spending your time nitpicking over how the OP template should be. i'd redo the thread title/OP entirely but i'm not complaining about it every fucking time this thread surfaces; i'm just making the best of it
Lincoln Williams
fokin faggot choke on your mac coffee
Joseph Stewart
Reminder that busybox is trash.
Kayden Hill
reminder that all your claims backing that up have been debunked reminder that you're what's wrong with FOSS because you complain on appalachian yodeling forums rather than filing bugs appropriately
Josiah Flores
this shit makes me laugh, thanks for the chuckle
Matthew Martinez
Is debian (netinst) systemd free? How do I make sure I no have systemd on debian? Why does poettering want to know what porn I watch
What network manager should I use? Why? At the moment I'm with systemd-networkd, but I don't know if I'm fully satisfied by it. Systemd dependency is obviously not an issue since I'm using it anyways.
>since I'm using it anyways why not ditch systemd? if you're absolutely sure you want to keep systemd, just keep using systemd-networkd. otherwise use connman, networkmanager, or iproute2/wpa_supplicant
Kayden Walker
No good stupid proof alternatives
John Campbell
what do you have issues with when you use (for example) openrc? it should be pretty straightforward
Julian Thompson
>why not ditch systemd? I can since I'm with gentoo, but I don't have enough reasons to remove it to be honest.
systemd-networkd works fine, but I don't know how to set a static wifi connection for when I'm home and a dynamic one (dhcp) for when I'm at school. Now I'm using a dynamic connection at home too, but a static one would be better.
Does not seem to have an SSID field as the one that wpa_supplicant has.
Connor Bailey
imo DHCP is a good practice to get in for your own networks. don't listen to the retards who think it's bloat; it addresses an actual issue and centralises IP/hostname/DNS configuration for devices on a network. you can even configure DHCP to hand out the same IP address based on MAC matching
just stick with DHCP and don't worry about configuring it on your computer
Jonathan Bell
I want something as easy as debian
Ethan Cook
>you can even configure DHCP to hand out the same IP address based on MAC matching You can if you have a decent router, but I'm stuck with the shit my internet provider force me to use. I can plug in another router and use the one my internet provider gave me as a modem, but having two devices for a shitty 20Mbps internet connection is retarded. A static local ip is what I miss the most. I just noticed that with two .network configuration I have two local ip addresses. It's retarded, but it's better than nothing. Anyways I still have to try it at my school, I would not be surprised if eduroam reject the dhcp request if I try to connect with a static ip first. We will see...
Chase Morris
NetworkManager and nmtui are comfy as fuck, not having to think about configuration files.
What's a more minimal alternative that doesn't have me manipulating configuration files every time I want to connect to an Access Point I've never seen before, and then manipulating the configuration file again when I come back home? What's something that just works, like NetworkManager, but without all the bloat and GLib dependency?
William Powell
Devuan is supposed to be exactly that. Never tried it though.
Zachary Murphy
Will I be ok package wise ? What about muh minimalism
Nolan Gomez
Repos are ancient by default, but you can switch to a more up to date one. If it's anything like Debian, there will be an option to install a DE during the initial install process. You can just uncheck all of those boxes to have it install without X.
calm down. They have instructions on their website. Look around a bit. It's basically the same shit as on Debian, where you edit your sources.list We used to, but they're dead now.
John Green
>What's a more minimal alternative that doesn't have me manipulating configuration files every time
ethernet masterrace. wifi is bloat
Easton Green
I cant read any manpages. I always get an error? Using Alpine if it matters.
Hudson White
What error?
Nathaniel Price
Do you have man installed? Do you have the *-doc package installed?
Christian Campbell
Do you have mdocml-apropos installed?
Isaac James
every time one is made it just ends up dying efnet #glmg if you really want to stick around
