/sm/ - software minimalism general

>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
Alpine, Crux, Void, GuixSD, BSD, SourceMage
>Autistic minimal
Arch, Gentoo, OpenBSD, LFS
>Most sane minimal
Debian (netinst)

>Minimal base Programs
>WM (window manager)
dwm
>Web browsers
Dillo, Surf, Links, w3m
>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

>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/
tools.suckless.org/quark/
motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Previous Thread:

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Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=u-06a36HsrI
web.archive.org/web/20090701055933/http://harmful.cat-v.org:80/software
infoworld.com/article/3048737/open-source-tools/stali-distribution-smashes-assumptions-about-linux.html
twitter.com/AnonBabble

It seems like luke got a lot of ideas from this thread. Lol

youtube.com/watch?v=u-06a36HsrI

>talks about software minimalism
>non-programmer
>never read source code
I just can't relate to his opinions

the extended table seems to trigger a lot of people
anyone knows the origin of it? I haven't found it anywhere on wayback machine

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The origin was Uriel's obsessed mind. I was really sad when he offed himself.

Currently rocking Arch, dwm, st and dmenu. Thinking of switching to Gentoo though for the ultimate minimalist DIY experience; any Arch users here who made the switch?

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but someone had to screenshot it from somewhere
people offing themselves all the time

LOOK HOW MINIMUL I AM GEE

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Hm, I dunno. I only remember the one on the right, the one on the left looks like an older revision of the software page.

this, he's a larping script kiddie. I was about to say that he was bullied in school but actually I would projecting with that one, I'm the one who was bullied and that's why I can call out his bullshit haha