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Cooper Thompson
the irony is that everything in your image is not minimal except dwm, feh, rc and st/urxvt
Isaac Garcia
suggestions?
Carter Parker
OS: Slackware WM: dwm, 9wm Music/Video Player: mplayer (without GUI) Image Viewer: feh File Manager: none Text Editor: sam or acme, nvi Shell: rc Web Browser: surf, uzbl Terminal: st or urxvt
Easton Hernandez
This, but unironically.
Adrian Wright
Reposting benchmark
Joshua Moore
what's wrong with mpv?
Parker Hill
Bump
Chase Adams
You fucking nigger. This thread is called GNU/Linux /minimalism/ thread
Isaiah Anderson
>mpv >python dependencies
John Kelly
What about ffplay then? Doesn't gentoo use the python language for their package manager
Asher Flores
Not sure what you mean with ffplay, but mpv now ships with its own version of ffmpeg. Anyway, I hope they have luck, I know everybody is saying mpv is dead but that's just a meme.
As for gentoo, not everybody uses that or any python based package manager. For various reasons but using python is one of them. Look at Exherbo.
Jose Collins
What's the most basic video player on gnu/linux? I think ffplay is
Jack Flores
Yeah, ffplay, but mplayer is damn good and the reason I personally use it is because it works on the framebuffer so I can watch movies on my server connected to my Tv through an HDMI any time I want. I use to have kodi-fb (the framebuffer version) just for that.
Julian Carter
>OS Several really, not in the mood of shilling rn >DE/WM Ratpoison (because keybinds, I need these keybinds) >Video/Music player MOC, mplayer >Image viewer sxiv, just try this, it can do GIF >File Manager ranger (waiting for other text based file manager with image previews), but I also use spacefm, smaller than thunar or pcman and more options >Text Editor Vim, but waiting for a Vi-like keys Zile >Shell Bash, because I know about inputrc and the readline >Web Browser Firefox but slowly migrating to an alternative >Terminal Xterm
Connor Parker
>Image Viewer: feh gif? svg?
Aaron Hernandez
You forgot lfs
Nathan Watson
"Minimalism = A very good thing" Too much of something is never good."
Has anyone followed this guide? If so, post your desktops.
Asher Davis
Which guide?
Kayden Carter
I feel like this list has a lot of unique options for WM, and provides a lot of cool stuff to try out. Has anyone used any of these WMs, especially the more obscure ones?
I've been using FrankenWM for a little bit now. It's very lightweight and comfy, and apparently is super minimal in terms of ram usage according to the list. It's got kind of a mix of awesome and dwm ideas in there, so it has various tiling presets that you can swap between, but the configuration happens in C in the header file instead of Lua. The config is well-commented so you can easily understand what does what.
only issue is that I can't seem to get a bar to work on it. I tried tint2, but it wouldn't show running applications from different workspaces unless I was actually looking at them. If I wasn't on a workspace, it's like those applications didn't exist to tint2.
But aside from the bar issues, everything was super smooth, so if you have a bar that works with it (maybe polybar would work?), or you don't really use/need a bar in the first place, then give it a go!
Xavier King
OP's pic
Dylan Hughes
>I've been using FrankenWM for a little bit now. It's very lightweight and comfy. Screenshot
Christian Davis
Here's mine from last thread. The package count is a bit bloaty because I didn't RTFM and see this wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian
but there you go. I also had a browser playing a jewtube video in the background, which explains the ram. It's normally like 135MB without the browser.
>mostly deaf I'm sorry to hear that user. Hope you are doing well.
Nolan Long
>mostly deaf Hope you are doing well :(
Isaiah Morales
I'm not sure on whether it's maintained or not, but i guess not. There was a commit earlier this year, but nothing since. I guess if you subscribe to the idea that "It's not dead. It's just finished" then this shouldn't be a big deal. DWM hasn't had a release in 2 years anyway.
As far as better, I don't actually have much experience with dwm other than knowing it's suckless and has the whole "recompile to reconfigure" thing. However, if we're going by which one is more minimal, dwm's code is more minimal (by about 1000 or so lines), but going by the above benchmark, franken is more ram-efficient.
Ryder Hall
>virtual box Do it on real hardware.
Ayden Hill
really wish I had the opportunity to do so. Although if I do get the chance, it will likely be with a systemdless distro.
Hunter Parker
Has anyone decided to compile firefox from source to make it as minimal as possible? Is it possible to get it to run in a frame buffer?
dwm was designed to be ultra minimalist, less than 2,000 lines of code. It really is done and only time new release comes out is for bug fixes if they're found
Aaron White
>Is it possible to get it to run in a frame buffer? That would solve a lot of problems for me.
Robert Walker
Did you actually read the page you sent me? >dwm is configured by modifying its source code and recompiling the binary I mean it's a quick process but still.
Michael Hill
Yeah that seems to be the case for both.
when comparing the minimalism of these two WMs I guess it depends on whether you value RAM-efficiency or LOC.
Do you even know what hipster even means, fucking reddit
Jayden Martinez
Why slackware
Evan Barnes
Where is xmonad ?
James Collins
Why Konsole?
Luke Hall
can someone confirm or deny that you can actually pick each individual package by hand with debian netinstall?
Xavier Wilson
If you need a graphical environment you're not minimalist.
Charles Cook
>>OS Manjaro >>DE/WM I3wm >>Video/Music player mpv >>Image viewer Feh >>File Manager Mostly ranger sometimes thunar >>Text Editor Vim >>Shell zsh >>Web Browser FF since 57 is pretty fast. Waterfox before that >>Terminal Urxvt
Thinking about ditching the minimalist deal for gnome. I tried the newest version out recently and started to learn the key bindings for navigating through windows/workspaces. Seems like it has potential. So retarded they use that GJS spidermonkey bullshit otherwise there would be so much more extensions. Besides that I really don't get all the hate for gnome.
Jonathan Jones
>OS Manjaro > DE/WM PCManFM/Openbox >Image Viewer Feh >File Manager PCManFM and terminal > Text editor I am/have migrated to VSCode > Shell zsh >Web Browser Firefox 57. > Terminal urxvt-tabbed
If I wasn't so incompetent it would be a bit more minimal, too, I guess, but...
Carson Diaz
Hey, that's really cute, it looks like one those of mini dvd players, how des it work exactly?
Jace Cox
what do you mean lol
you can install or not install whatever packages you want, obviously you will have to install dependencies in many cases
Matthew Thompson
No arch here?
Levi Long
It's an OLPC.
Ayden Morales
bloated shit
Luis Reyes
No mention of the Qupzilla browser? It's way more lightweight than Firefox, it's what I use on my single core laptop. It has a built it adblocker too. The only thing that missing is Noscript style functionality, which makes me a bit uneasy. Still, it's by far the best browser I've used on older computers considering its features.
Luis Thompson
How do i get truly minimal install of Slackware? I've followed the instructions but still got about 1 Gb used without X. What am I doing wrong?
Jonathan Kelly
>OS Arch Linux customized without systemd and critical packages (graphics, audio, base-devel) compiled by me with features I need/use using Clear Linux optimization flags. (Thanks to the Arch Build System and AUR.)
> Package count ( pacman -Q |wc -l ) 1090
>DE/WM dwm + rofi (rofi is a minimal program menu I use instead of dmenu)
>Video/Music player mpv (for both)
>Image viewer sxiv ( feh for static wallpaper)
>File Manager ranger with image, .zip and .rar file preview | OR plain command line most times
>Text Editor vim
>Shell bash
>Web Browser firefox (it sucks but no other choice available yet)
> Terminal ROXTerm (can do everything and, at 1.5 MB never had a problem with it.)
>RootFS information and size ( I have steam installed to play TF2 / Counter Strike) Size Used Avail Use% 30G 10G 20G 34%
Not him, but I woudl agree. Slackware is pretty minimalistic because it's really just plain linux. No "Debian-like linux", no "Arch way", no fancy shmancy. Just a Kernel, Lilo and a bunch of packages. And if you use Slack for a while you will probably know very well which packages are on your computer and what they do.
echo "to be or not to be" > hamlet && echo "that's the question" >> hamlet
Easton Richardson
When we are arguing between 300kb and 26 mb instead of the gigabytes of Gnome and KDE, I don't think we have much to argue about, there has to be a point where we stop and take a look at our lives and ask if this is what we truly wanted when we descended from the pleroma.
Levi Ramirez
woke: using software with as few features as is comfortable for you and keeping things practical by not drowning yourself in useless options and features broke: autistically crippling yourself by purposefully using very basic software lacking features that would be useful to you
Nolan Hall
I think the cutoff should she "can it run comfortably on an SoC like a Pi or a Beaglebone?"
Kayden Miller
What would you gentlemen sugest running on a netbook with only 1gb ram? Would be used for some video,youtube,shitposting and multiple game emulators.
Jaxson King
I agree, I understand people wanting lightness, I use wm, I like making my own system. But its when we get to autistic levels that my eyebrow raises.
But, I guess without those autists we wouldn't know how far we can push our systems, and their sacrifice has been my gain over the years.
Ayden Green
In what universe isn't firefox bloat?
Noah Phillips
Sounds good, I'll try it out. Thanks
Jack Allen
>OS Debian (!#++) >DE/WM Openbox >Video/Music player VLC, Moc, youtubeviewer >Image viewer feh >File Manager ranger >Text Editor nano >Shell bash >Web Browser firefox , w3m for text >Terminal xterm
Isaiah Myers
I'm running a minimal Debian installation on my netbook (one of those cheap N270 Atoms). It works surpisingly well, I can play HD video with mplayer and SNES era consoles emulate well. Playstation emulation is pushing it but it still works. Big browsers like Firefox and Chrome are quite slow, so you'll have to settle for smaller browsers like Qutebrowser/Qupzilla/Netsurf.
Chase Lee
Why would anyone here unironically use xterm over urxvt or st?
Can you elaborate on that? Also, doesn't the tragically reduced speed of output bother you? I mean, if you have a big output, in lines count, it will take forever to print them all. Or is there an option to change it during compilation?
Benjamin Reyes
Thanks already tried a few. Lakka works amazingly well for emulators but does nothing else. Mint was probably easiest to use. Lubuntu was average but didnt like networking with windows PCs at all. Manjaro is my current attempt and will look into deb minimal if that ends poorly too.
Oliver Cruz
>debian (NET ISO) REEEEE fucking normies not understanding how installers work
