/mg/ - Software and Hardware Minimalism General

For discussing software and hardware minimalism.

>What is computing minimalism?
linfo.org/unix_philosophy.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat

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

>List of minimal OSes and distros
>Obscure minimal
Plan 9, FreeDOS, Minix3, Genode
>Meme minimal
Crux, Void, GuixSD, FreeBSD, SourceMage
>Autistic minimal
Gentoo, Alpine, OpenBSD, LFS
>Most sane minimal
Arch Linux, Debian (netinst)

>Minimal Programs
>WM (window manager)
dwm (most sanest and most minimalist)
>Web browsers
Firefox or any of the popular text based web browsers (w3m, links)
>File Manager
Terminal
>Video/Music player
Mpv or cmus
>Text editors
GNU nano or Vim
>Image viewer
FEH or sxiv
>Shells
mksh or dash
>Terminal
st (simple terminal) or rxvt-unicode


>Useful links
Suckless: suckless.org/rocks
Cat-v.org: harmful.cat-v.org/software/
Window Managers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
Without Systemd: without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd
Alternatives to Bloatware: github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

>Website development
werc.cat-v.org/
learnbchs.org/
motherfuckingwebsite.com/
youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY (The World Wide Web Sucks)

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/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md
hooktube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY
github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki/Use-cases-of-QtWebKit
gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d
twitter.com/AnonBabble

Why should I install Arch over Gentoo?

I've been jumping around Linux distros, have used it before and enjoyed it until I got stuck in dependency hell.

AUR. Also bleeding edge updates.

>Why should I install Arch over Gentoo?
>install
>Gentoo

you have to go through all these steps, the more control you have i guess when you install gentoo

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shit gets crazy here

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I've installed Gentoo before, and it wasn't that hard. You just follow the instructions. Arch is the same way.

Does Arch have a better userbase than Gentoo?

help friends a few days ago I had an iPhone 6 with iCloud but watching videos I managed to unlock it with a page where you put the IMEI and unlocked it if it served but I can not find it anybody knows what it's called or has the url

Is Falkon minimalist?

Programmers are the problem
They write shit code
Shit code is bloat code
The software standards are fucked

bump dis bitch

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>has gui
>webengine
>chromium
no it's not minimalist. use qutebrowser with qtwebkit reloaded backend if you can't use lynx for some reason.

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desktop threads are back, there's no reason for this thread to exist anymore

I don't think you understand the purpose of this thread.

Why would anyone want to use QtWebKit over QtWebEngine?

stop posting bad quality pictures of my wife, thank you

Also this list. I guess made by someone from here.
github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

It is binary-based with large package repositories. Also it keeps close to upstream and makes minimal changes when programs are packaged. So if a programs doesn't work, it isn't a distro issue and you should send a bug report to the developers. Overall it is an ok system for normal use (as are Debian, Ubuntu, ...) but it's great if you're a dev.

Who's the chick?

Where are the minimalistic javascript frameworks?
Seriously, OP, the webdev world is where minimalism is most needed. I'm on a windows tablet and a youtube tab is taking 30s to fucking load. Same with most Google sites, they must be using angular everywhere.

I need a minimal framework with just some CSS to make things good and some JS to switch single pages in and out. Is this too much to ask? No one on github has attempted it yet?

>Where are the minimalistic javascript frameworks?
use HTML and CSS. Only JS if you need to.
watch this:
hooktube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY

Because it's less bloat. github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki/Use-cases-of-QtWebKit

DIY is not an option. Some CSS wizard somewhere must have crafted a minimal file just to make things look good and modern.
Some JS dude must have written some code for handling single-page views in and out along with some basic utils.
I did exactly this sometime ago and dropped the project even though it worked. Someone must have done it better meanwhile.
C'mon this has to exist.

That's already on the OP but thanks for bringing that in. And yes, it was made by someone from here.

Is this the power of minimalism?

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You are describing a giant oxymoron
A minimalistic javascript framework is literally to just not use one. No site you could call minimalistic would need one. It's the same with css/html. Just make the background a very light gray, the text a very dark gray, and add some simple divs and you're done. If you need some kind of templating make a small wrapper using the tag.

Oh crap. I saw all besides that one.

This.

110K Angular >
40K React >
21K Vue >
20K Inferno >
4K Preact
src gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d

Duuuuuddeeeeee
agyyyyyyy aehhhhh yaaaa

these are good:
but also I can vouch for mithril.js.org
probably the most mature of the micro-js framework bunch