/sm/ - Software Minimalism

For discussing software minimalism.

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

>Why software minimalism?
- Fewer bugs
- Better and faster 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
Debian (netinst)

>Minimal base Programs
>WM (window manager)
dwm or i3
>Web browsers
Firefox Quantum or any of the popular text based web browsers (w3m, links)
hooktube.com/watch?v=cNr-nobIjks (Terminal-based Web Browsing with w3m)
>File Manager
Terminal (cp, ls, cd, mv)
>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)

>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/
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

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

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>gentoo
>autistic minimal
You need to take a look some day at the sprawling dependency tree of portage.

define "software"

>Firefox Quantum or any of the popular text based web browsers (w3m, links)

Stopped reading there.

Thought this thread was interesting at first.

If you can't replace your home computer with a SBC or a shell account with a shared system you're not REALLY minimal.

Also, use nvi, not vim.

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can't get any minimal than this boys

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>Arch
>over 500 packages
Lol nice try

>almost 2 GB of RAM used

Embarrassing.

>>Autistic minimal
>Gentoo, Alpine, OpenBSD, LFS
>>Web browsers
>Firefox Quantum
you are legitimately retarded

> thinking package count means anything
arch has an autistic way of determining what counts as an installed package and it's binaries are compiled against every dependency the devs build in