/minimalism/ thread

For suggestions on programs that aren't bloat refer to suckless.org/rocks

Acceptable GNU/Linux distributions that aren't bloat

>Gentoo
gentoo.org/downloads/

>Debian(NET ISO)
debian.org/CD/netinst/

>Void(Hipster but werks)
repo.voidlinux.eu/live/current/

>Alpine(Pretty damn minimal)
alpinelinux.org/downloads/

Another protip to keep your system minimal is to keep your package count lower than 999.

Get recommendations to see if your system is bloat or not

>OS
>DE/WM
>Video/Music player
>Image viewer
>File Manager
>Text Editor
>Shell
>Web Browser
>Terminal

Protip: If you aren't comfortable with the terminal or aren't proficient with GNU/Linux this thread isn't for you.

A nice quote
"Minimalism = A very good thing"
Too much of something is never good."

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc
gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
github.com/ignacio-vc/stu
suckless.org/rocks
gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Alternative
wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

tfw too lazy to update chart

what kinda stuff does everyone have in their st config.h? i want some inspiration

If you are going to put Gentoo add Source Mage.

>OS
SMGL, Devuan
>DE/WM
Ratpoison
>Video/Music player
MPlayer, MOC
>File Manager
Ranger
>Text Editor
Vim
>Shell
Bash
>Web Browser
Firefox (NetRunner when!?)
>Terminal
Xterm

i'd like to see their dwm config desu

>HardenedBSD
>Xfce with Icewm
>feh
>bash
>firefox
>(u)xterm

In the interest of minimalism:
Trash distress except gentoo
trash wms
trash music player
>using anything except coreutls to manage files
Fucking Firefox
linux is cool/10

>OS
Arch Linux/Parabola
>DE/WM
i3
>Video/Music player
mpv/cmus
>Image viewer
feh
>File Manager
terminal
>Text Editor
nano
>Shell
mksh
>Web Browser
firefox
>Terminal
urxvt

How do you deal with reaction images if you don't wanna use a file manager but also don't want to name and remember every single one of them?

I hate arch linux but Parabola doesn't seem that bad since the FSF approves. I bet you have a librebooted laptop as well?

Have the file manager open 24/7 in a seperate workspace? I think ranger is what you're looking for

>OS
Arch Linux
>DE/WM
bspwm
>Video/Music player
mpv/mpd
>Image viewer
sxiv
>File Manager
ranger
>Text Editor
vim
>Shell
bash
>Web Browser
qutebrowser
>Terminal
urxvt

Hmm. How is qutebrowser? Last time i used it was a year ago.

>OS
debian
>DE/WM
bspwm
>Video/Music player
mpv
>Image viewer
feh
>File Manager
mc
>Text Editor
vim
>Shell
bash
>Web Browser
nightly
>Terminal
termite

Daily reminder Ubuntu is amazon spyware. Our lord Stallman disapproves.


youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc

fyi stallman uses trisquel

ok

gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

ok

stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

>Thunar
Nooooooo.

Use pcmanfm-qt or ranger.

>OS
Gentoo
>DE/WM
i3
>Video/Music player
mpv
mpv --no-video
>Image viewer
sxiv (less bloated then feh)
>File Manager
ranger / cd ls
>Text Editor
vim/nano/
>Shell
zsh terminal and bash for scripting
>Web Browser
Firefox Beta, still waiting for new Qutebrowser version
>Terminal
rxvt-unicode

Not in the Template:

>RSS/Mail/Calendar/Todo
Thunderbird
Maybe i will switch to calcurse mutt newsbeuter
>Backup
borgbackup
>Password safe
keepassxc
>Mindmapping / Brainstorming
xmind

>mpv --no-video

>Firefox

You can check mine out if you want, nothing fancy though, just added dcat's Xresources patch and made it work with current st-git version, and the scrolling patches

github.com/ignacio-vc/stu

Would be very interested in seeing what other people's st forks or just config.h's look like also

i could have got dem digits fug

>OS
Debian
>DE
xfce4
>WM
xfwm4
>Video player
VLC
>Music player
sox
>Image viewer
Ristretto
>Text editor
Usually neovim, but I'll occasionally use gedit
>shell
Bourne Again
>Web browser
Firefox
>Terminal
The one that comes with xfce

All i see is Bloat. Gtfo

>a couple of gigabytes in total is now bloat
Ayy lmao

Do systemd-analyze.

>systemd
bloat

Also I use mpv because I'm a fucking idiot who forgets to put a field in

I would add that zathura is nice for a minimal pdf reader.

Thats why gentoo and void are alternatives cunt.

I use mupdf.

suckless.org/rocks

gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Alternative

This is a free software board. stfu

>OS
Debian
>DE
GNOME
>Video player
mpv
>Music player
Clementine
>Image viewer
Ristretto
>Text editor
Emacs
>Shell
Bash
>Web browser
Firefox ESR
>Terminal
GNOME terminal

Reposting

Also, thanks for making these threads! My system has been running so much more smoothly since I ditched my display manger for startx.

>OS
NixOS
>DE/WM
KDE (work so no choice) / dwm
>Video/Music player
mpd + mpv
>Image viewer
feh
>File Manager
terminal
>Text Editor
vim
>Shell
bash / pdksh
>Web Browser
firefox (dev job requires it)
>Terminal
konsole (no need to install more)

>Also, thanks for making these threads!
Np, i just want you guys to know your system can be more CLEANER and FASTER without bloat.

You better not be using ubuntu..

Is there a good way to copy filepaths to the main clipboard from ranger? If so this sounds pretty comfy

Nope! debian in a VM.
FrankenWM is pretty comfy, and I just redid my colors/rice.

The RAM usage is with a browser playing a Youtube video, and the resolution being 2560x1600

minimalism is a state of mind
true minimalism is using fedora or MacOS. No worries.

If that's the mindset then NixOS beats all due to only needing one config for your entire system

Literally none of those are "minimalist." Use a better image next time.

Nice!! But still bloat.

You have shit ton of packages.

>Reconfigure apt so that it does not install additional packages

Add the following entries to the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file:

APT::Install-Recommends "0" ;
APT::Install-Suggests "0" ;

wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian

Found the arch faggot that thinks arch isn't bloat.

found the fag not using guixSD

nope, you clearly are not enlightened yet
it's a m i n d s e t

>Debian in a VM
Why even bother doing these things if you're just going to rice on a VM? Uninstall Windows

new to linux, have XFCE. Isn't StartX the command to start your DE? What makes it run smooth?

He's probably learning faggot. Holy fuck.

>manjaro i3community(removed decent amount of bloat, pkgsi3
>vlc
>feh
>terminal
>vim
>bash
>firefox-nightly
>urxvt

>new to linux
It's called GNU/Linux.
You're probably not using a display manager if you know what startx is.

>OS
Win10
>DE/WM
Windows default
>Video/Music Player
VLC/Foobar2000
>Image Viewer
Irfranview
>File Manager
File Explorer
>Text Editor
Notepad++
>Shell
Bash
>Web browser
Firefox
>Terminal
CMD/cygwin

want to move to Linux, but im in the VR biz and Win10 is the best for it.

>manjaro
ewwww

Looked "Linux Display Manager" up and recognized I have LXDE

Post your desktop

Put xfe instead of thunar

Ain't at home right now, will later.

add this to your commands.py
class pwd(Command):
def execute(self):
cwd = self.fm.thisfile.path
self.fm.run("echo " + cwd + " | xclip -sel clip");
[\code]
and as a bonus, add this to your shell config if you want to change directory to whichever directory that you were in ranger last
alias ranger='ranger --choosedir=$HOME/rangerdir; LASTDIR=`cat $HOME/rangerdir`; cd "$LASTDIR"'
[\code]

Wrong. Feel free to try again though (you'll still be wrong). Use a better image next time.

CloverOS
FVWM
mpv
feh
nano/emacs
zsh
waterfox
urxvt

Ok added those. How do I unbloat my shit now?

wait shit
>firefox-nightly/vimb
I really like vimb, prefer to use it when it suits my needs(60-75%of the time), but sometimes i need the extra overhead

Found thw ubuntufag. If it isn't ubuntu. Has to be bsd or some shit

Wrong.

Kek. You reinstall debian net iso, then add those. Your system is done for

yeah, yeah I know, but really what happened was I put it on my laptop just to try it out and take a look, install was the fastest I've seen, no issues, was pretty comfy to use, but it did have a lot of annoying bloatshit that I've been slowly trying to find and purge as much as possible, getting it down to a pretty clean machine

Thanks user. Not sure about that second one just yet but it could be neat. I think I'm going to try throwing ranger in a dedicated i3 desktop - having it open all the time might make automatically choosing that directory make sense

Yeah fuck that. I'll live with the bloat.

If I do reinstall, it'll be a systemd-free distro anyway

> I've been slowly trying to find and purge as much as possible, getting it down to a pretty clean machine.

There are thousands of gnu/linux distros. Manjaro is just one of them. Don't use shitty distros. Use debian net iso

/autism/ thread

What does this thread think of the Systemd replacements?

>OpenRC + whatever thing
>Runit
>SysVInit
>GNU Shepherd
>other

Which one is the best?

openrc is pretty good. haven't tried the others

I've tried Runit (Void).
It's VERY simple to use, and maybe it's just because it was my first exposure to systemd-free, but it felt very stable.
I didn't realize how much Systemd leaked/fluctuated memory

GNU Shepherd looks interesting because you never see it anywhere else other than GuixSD. Don't know much about that one.

>still waiting for new Qutebrowser version

What are you waiting for? Per-domain settings?

A lot changed - a year ago, you were most likely using it with the legacy QtWebKit backend which is quite buggy and unsupported nowadays (newer, maintained versions of QtWebKit are still supported). Now, QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) is the default, and there's also a new config system which makes configuring it much cleaner and more powerful.

Jesus dude, what are you doing with your life...

>OS
Arch
>DE/WM
i3 (not with gaps, gaps are evil!)
>Video/Music player
mpv
mpv --no-video (with some custom scripts)
>Image viewer
mpv (with some custom scripts, feh doesn't support gifs/webms well enough i find)
>File Manager
Terminal + Thunar for dynamic volume ease of use
>Text Editor
Vim/Kakoune
>Shell
Zsh (oh-my-zsh sucks, zplug plus ~3 plugins)
>Web Browser
Firefox (w3m just does not cut it. :Terminal
urxvt

Nice trips!

How the actual fuck is firefox minimal?

On a more autistic note, how the actual fuck is anything based on linux and GNU minimal? The first thing minimalists do is switch to BSD.

There is sane minimal and autistic minimal. Openbsd is the autistic minimal

It isn't, unfortunately the web became so complex so you are locked into to using a gigantic blob to use many pages on it :<

I agree the BSDs are more 'pure' in a sense. Still, its not as if you can't create similar enough systems if you treat the kernel and base application layer as a black box (which most users largely can).

Sane minimal really doesn't exclude ungoogled chromium

Anyone else got any thoughts on these: ?

>ungoogled chromium
If it has the word google in it. It's BLOAT

runit and openrc, everything else is shit

Elaborate.

Install Gentoo

>What are you waiting for? Per-domain settings?
yes
but i'm fine with waitiing^TM

reminder that urxvt has a daemon option, a client for that, and apparently one that starts the daemon if it's not running, and starts a client if it is.

but wait there's more

>OS
Arch Linux
>DM/WM
LXDM/i3
>Video/Music player
mpv/cmus
>Image viewer
feh
>File manager
Thunar but I mostly use the terminal
>Text editor
nano/mousepad
>Shell
bash
>Web browser
Firefox
>Terminal
Terminator

Stop calling void hipster with that pasta

>OS
Slackware
>WM
Openbox
>Video/Music Player
mpv
>Filemanager
SpaceFM
>Text Editor
Emacs
>Shell
zsh
>Terminal
Roxterm

>OS
Windows 10
>DE/WM
Windows 10
>Video/Music player
VLC
>Image viewer
Photos
>File Manager
Windows Explorer/Total Commander
>Text Editor
Notepad++/VS Code
>Shell
Bash on Ubuntu running under WSL
>Web Browser
Firefox
>Terminal
xterm

Can't get more comfier than running linux distro natively on Windows machine.

What are advantages of terminal multiplexers like tmux and screen? Why do you use them?

They're normal usague is sort of obsolete if you're using a tiling wm, but there are some use cases like if you're sshing into a different machine it's usefull. And while working on a different machine you can detach a tmux session and reattach it at any time.

Don't most people use tmux with st and run it normal?