Minimalism thread
"A design is only ideal when there is nothing left to take away."
All operating systems welcome.
Pic related.
Minimalism thread
Nolan Martinez
Benjamin Perez
>chrome
Benjamin Harris
I have Google Home throughout my apartment, and I use a Google Pixel 2 and chromebook. Why wouldn't I use Chrome?
You should know Chrome is the defacto standard of the web.
Leo Howard
Eh, having Windows 10 in general defeats the purpose. There is nothing "minimal" about... well, just open the task manager and see all the processes running. You probably won't even see a problem with that, which is why your thread is so shitty
Wyatt Young
>minimalism
more like wasted space
a good minimalist design has no wasted space you faggot
Kayden Brooks
hey I use O&O Shutup 10, disable the lockscreen, and I removed all modern apps outside of calc, edge, and store.
You CAN be a minimalist with Windows 10, linux-kun
Christopher Wilson
Landon Morales
>windows 10
>chrome
>lastpass
I see you're a pleb that loves botnet. You belong on reddit not Jow Forums.
Julian Moore
Smart phone minimalism. micro g lineage os and this is my app drawer.
Dylan Martin
Thanks, Stallman. Shouldn't you be eating dead skin from your toes in public?
Cooper Turner
>no microsoft redistributables
I see you use your computer for nothing of value.
Adrian Russell
>windows
>picrelated
also linux is bloat too
Lucas Richardson
Cooper White
Yes, I know, should remove the version watermark.
Thomas Brown
>Google Home throughtout my apartment, and I use a Google Pixel 2 and chromebook
How's the botnet life going for you?
Jack Sanders
No, keep the watermark!
Ayden Morris
Great. I would feel lonely if no such agency couldn't hear me hum Katy Perry songs.
Ryder Perry
>process hacker
>boasts minimalism
>uses bloat over defaults
Samuel Hall
>installing third party trash
Why?
Hudson Murphy
Process hacker is so much easier to use than task manager, mang.
Nathan Martinez
I work at Google, I just checked out his dick pics. Nice micropenis OP.
Alexander Campbell
I'm actually dickless. I don't have a vagina either. What you saw, google employee, was my splarnge. You wouldn't get it, but in my species, it requires a dick, vagina, splarnge, and spinkledoo to reproduce! Shitlord.
Gabriel Diaz
>RAM: 3.03GB in use
>Processes: 139
Sure is minimal in here
Nathan Jackson
Pretty minimal when I have 32gigs of ram and 8 cores idle.
Zachary Hernandez
That's not how you define minimal.
Carson Sanders
>32 GB RAM
>8 cores idle
>237 GB HD
Michael Phillips
Minimal is relative to the requirements of the user and environment, anonnie.
Evan Harris
That 237 gb "HD" is actually a 950 m2 drive that blows the pants off SATA SSDs.
Samuel Flores
I hate this design trend of making everything as minimal as possible. It makes things harder to use. Yes I know you get used to it quickly, but it results in you being that much slower when using software. The design style of Windows 98 is objectively better than the flat minimalism shit that everyone (windows 10, gnome, even fucking KDE) is shoving down your throat today.
Dominic Garcia
Am I doing it right?
Samuel Robinson
also, wtf is that? that looks just like the windows 10 default settings except that the background is a flat colour. is that what passes off as 'customization' in the windows world? pathetic.
Nicholas Turner
>Chrome
Austin Moore
>preaching minimalism
>then installing software like VLC, WinRAR, Chrome, Process Hacker... to compensate for the OS's flawed defaults
Colton Carter
Not everyone is autistic enough to use an i3 window manager.
Lincoln Butler
Who the hell decided to put that task bar shadow there, it looks terrible with maximized windows.
Julian Miller
>It makes things harder to use
A minimalist setup is not necessarily crippled. It's about removing the superfluous. Whoever makes his life more complicated is being stupid about it.
Kayden Anderson
What we're seeing here is chickenshit minimalism. Minimalism in design aesthetic that is built upon a heap of shitty bloat. True minimalism is being able to accomplish all your tasks while using as little resources as possible.
Install GNU/Linux or BSD. Use a small window manager, use a terminal client such as mutt or alpine for email, Manage your files from the shell, use browser extensions to block ads and bloated unnecessary shite, etc. If you're using more than 100-150MB of RAM with no browser, you're doing something wrong.
Adrian James
continued:
Some more suggestions. Use mpv for videos. Use that or cmus or mpd for music. Use rtorrent or transmission-daemon+remote-cli for torrents.
Colton Kelly
OP here to mock you about your misguided definition of minimalism
>You actually need a keyboard? You're using more than 1k of ram? That's real chickenshit minimalism. Get yourself a PDP and some punch cards. If you aren't using punchcards, you're doing something wrong.
Andrew Nelson
Like this?
Angel White
extremely minimal
Jackson Sullivan
>(s)he uses Linux for Negroes
Parker Thomas
Yeah, that's a hell of a lot better. Shame you have to resort to scripts in order to disable it rather than just unchecking a box, I set my script to run at startup but it only worked half the time.
Oliver Jackson
No, I don't install from github.
Which nigger did shit shit btw? It clearly was someone from here, seeing the installgentoo wiki link and stupid """malware""" that wouldn't even work because shit's sandboxed on gentoo
Matthew Murphy
Except keyboards and more than 1k of ram are needed to complete my day to day tasks.
The goal is not minimalism to the point of unusability. It's to not use an unnecessary amount of resources.
Michael Reed
The point is if you have 32gb of ram, it's silly to use only 100mb. You ARE missing usability when you sit at 100mb. Command line tools are a pain in the ass.
Robert King
>You ARE missing usability when you sit at 100mb. Command line tools are a pain in the ass.
The computers went wrong when you made them for niggers. That's when it went wrong. It's like how many people, it's like, "Ugh it's a command line.." Ah, fuck you man. White people don't mind it, ok? The white people are like, "Yeah it's a command line. So what's your point?" The niggers are all like, "Nooo! We don't like the command line!" Here's the difference in a white person and a nigger: Do you like the command line? Ok, you're a nigger. Fuck you. Get the fuck out.
-- Terry A. Davis
Easton Wood
I know you're joking, but he's mentally ill. Most of his opinions are a result of that.
Ayden Wood
>windows
>chrome
>nvidia driver
>minimalism
The presence of few programs doesn't make your system a minimal one, it makes it simply less useful. The point of minimalism is to have a fully useful system that uses few resources.
Luis Cook
Nah man, he's speaking the truth when it comes to that. Within his mentally ill ranting are nuggets of truth and wisdom. Keep in mind that before he went nuts, he was a very intelligent and skilled programmer. Going nuts didn't change that.
Nathan Parker
>windows
I guess everything counts
Cooper Fisher
>minimalism
windows
Wyatt Fisher
>having to go to this much trouble to make your OS about as minimal as a bloated KDE install
Gabriel Jackson
BASED
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Dylan Evans
>bloatest OS in existence
>minimalism
your average Jow Forumsetard
Luis Sullivan
>GNOME
Jason Cruz
>32 gigs of ram
>8 cores idle
good goyim
Jeremiah Bell
I like it. I'm well aware of all the shit surrounding it but it works fine for me. I like every desktop environment but gnome is my favorite
Joseph Young
>2182MiB / 7739MiB
Yeah, so minimal.
Nathaniel Price
Can't believe we had to wait this long for this post.
Minimalism in linux using wm's like i3, bspwm, openbox, fluxbox, etc. is true minimalism. Not just disabling desktop icons on a Windows machine.
Chase Roberts
:D
Camden Torres
>Uptime: 1 min
Why don't you show us your REAL desktop.
Gabriel Ortiz
>Implying Jow Forums isn't reddit already
Angel Reyes
All that I'd bloat besides Realtek Nvidia and VLC.
Jack Jenkins
>all this thread
>not using Crux
Fuck you all!
Christian Scott
sup my dude
Austin Wood
>1366x768
hang in there bruh
Josiah Thomas
People conflate having a light OS with having a minimal OS. Minimalism is about maximising the utility of every piece of software you need, it's not necessarily about having the most spartan system possible. A pre-compiled kernel can be just as minimal as a custom compiled kernel depending on how you view it. It's not minimal to spend time configuring your kernel if you don't enjoy it.
Elijah Bell
Uptime doesn't make a difference, what's important is the programs you run and the background processes. My system usually uses 270-350 MB of RAM when I don't use Firefox, otherwise it can go up to 1.1 GB of RAM usage with 5 tabs open, one of which is a YouTube video playing.
Camden Hill
>minimalism
>accepting web standards
pick one
Ethan Perry
What's the most minimal terminal emulator that doesn't require recompiling to configure? I'm not a fan of that concept.
Carter Bell
Fuck your 'MINIMAL' stuff, just use xfce4-terminal or whatever non-shit terminal program like a sensible person.
Lincoln Adams
The choice of a terminal doesn't make a huge difference in resources' usage. Most people recommend urxvt, but it requires some time to configure. I use x-terminal and I like it: you can configure it easily through GUI and it's the stock terminal of Lubuntu, so I guess it's light enough for most users. Some people also recommend st.
Isaac Garcia
Guess that makes sense. I'm not especially into the minimalism thing, but at a glance it seemed like most of the popular emulators were interchangeable. So I was curious as to what was commonly used besides st (Which is what I had in mind when I asked for things that didn't need recompilation)
Thomas Howard
>Windows 10
>LastPass
>anti-malware
>Google Chrome
>Amazon
>Only 250GB of storage
Leave here and never return.
Jayden Sullivan
It doesn't matter how much ram it takes up if you actually use windows and only spin up your rice VM to impress internet strangers.
Lincoln Young
>VM
it's not a VM though. I installed Lubuntu and erased Windows 10.
James Perry
Doubt it's "minimalist" but it still somewhat looks good.
Jaxson Allen
Doubt it's "minimalist" but it still somewhat looks good.
Aaron Parker
install gentoo
Kevin Clark
is that lxqt or kde?
Oliver Peterson
Ayy!
Jordan Edwards
>google maps
Hunter Walker
Hey guys, am I /minimal/?
Eli Bailey
If you strip a Linux distro to the kernel, then you realize that everything that is not the kernel is bloat. Yes, including your i3WM--that's bloat too.
Sebastian Long
Still seems like a lot of shit on that list that's not needed
Adrian Garcia
>chrome
>classic shell
>windows 10
>minimal
That's probably not even LTSB, is it?
Ayden Wood
>All operating systems welcome.
* but only Plan 9 isn't off-topic
Luke Russell
You are operating under the false assumption that Plan 9 is the only minimal operating system out there!
Juan Diaz
>minimalism
>antivirus/malware
I'm not directly addressing you OP,
but you people seriously need to be extremely retarded, I'm not trying to exaggerate it, to be at some level where you can get on Jow Forums and even subtly browse Jow Forums, but then still use antivirus software or even a firewall on your computer.
SERIOUSLY. STOP IT. YOU DON'T FUCKING NEED IT.
Connor Perez
>nothing left to take away.
>has windows installed
Lucas Allen
FUCKING THIS
Jordan Ward
Must you swear?
Leo Taylor
William Bennett
ye
Owen Evans
even on cyber world swearing still can get your heat off. it makes you feel relieved of the thing you wanted to express.
nigger.
Nathan James
Racism outside of /b/ is against the rules.
Kayden Williams
...
Daniel Parker
Joshua Moore
That's not your app drawer, those are you can launch from swiftly switch you lying attention whore