Protip: If you aren't comfortable with the terminal or aren't proficient with GNU/Linux this thread isn't for you.
If you use Arch, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint , Antergos, Solus, Fedora or any other of the thousands of BLOAT gnu/linux meme distros. Don't bother posting in this thread
>OS Openbsd >DE/WM I3 >Video/Music player mpv >Image viewer feh >File Manager ranger >Text Editor emacs with evil >Shell ksh >Web Browser dillo and firefox-esr for javascript >Terminal urxvt with daemon
comfy so far, definetly a learning experiance going from linux to openbsd but the man pages are really quite good.
Brayden Martin
Look pals, >Void Linux >i3-gasp >feh >ranger >vim >bash or zsh >firefox setup here, but listen.
This minimalism shit doesn't pay off and it doesn't make you more . I have GNOME installed on my machine just for the gdm greeter and a proper settings panel. I need bluetooth to fucking work. I want an easy GUI fallback when something shuts down.
I tried minimalism, it was awful. Your machines probably have 8 or 16 gigs of memory, get with the times.
pic semi-related
Zachary Sanchez
arch dwm mpv feh ranger vim zsh chromium urxvt
Thomas Taylor
I'd say that minimalism isn't the aim in itself (unless your going with the 'look at my minimalist system aren't I cool' crowd). The idea is that minimalist systems, and systems that conform to the unix philosophy, is that software stability and simplicity follows minimalism. So the system is better because of minimialism.
In the end, bloated vs minimal software goes along these lines:"There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors."
Jackson Butler
I had a GUI fallback too when I was feeling unconfident of my skills with the tiling wm. I think I used motif window manager, pretty good, and easy too.
Sad to hear you didn't find an application for bluetooth yet.
Blake Torres
I don't think i would ever get into bsd. But i have heard openbsd is pretty damn minimal
Colton Adams
Arch >BLOAT
Lincoln Reed
Zsh is bloat. Use mksh
Michael Ross
KindIt works, but not so pretty. I can still type and to everything tho.
Adrian Thompson
Actually that is not right openbsd has a lot of stuff you dont want by default, but is considered secure, or at least that is what the marketing of their developers say.
Jeremiah Harris
what's a good keyboard based web browser? decided to drop thunar on my thinkpad for ranger and i'm wondering how i could get used to never leaving the keyboard.
Ethan Bell
Examples of packages?
Henry Edwards
I used Uzbl but couldnt post on Sup Forums, maybe newer versions can.
Hunter Peterson
Links, don't know about qutebrowser, It doesn't have ublock.
Isaac Myers
Whichever window manager they shipped with.
Nathaniel Jenkins
I've been avoiding qutebrowser because it uses the same proprietary library as chromium, and no HTTPS everywhere and umatrix equivalent.
Jaxson Gray
I see.
Leo Rogers
Thats why i use firefox 57+ and avoid meme browsers
Charles Flores
firefox for me was crash and freeze every 5 minutes mcgee. does vimperator work on the latest icecat?
Chase Robinson
>Arch >bloated Why spread lies?
Jason Miller
I've been testing netsurf, works ok, is not pretty. I am waiting for Uzbl to be able to post on Sup Forums but couldn't, beyond that not sure. I'll probably use Uzbl once it can post on Sup Forums and netsurf in my server (because framebuffer). Posted from netsurf btw.
Anyone else waiting for netrunner?
Jeremiah Turner
Look at the previous 8 fucking threads. Arch is bloat. I can't be fucked. I'm not going to post the copy pasta. If you think arch isn't bloat. Whatever. I feel sorry for every single faggot that fell for the arch meme.
Hudson Hernandez
This, so much this.
Chase Allen
What distro do you use?
Connor Rogers
Where can I find decent Openbox themes?
Bentley Walker
>Look at the previous 8 fucking threads Well I sure got my answer.
Owen Long
Whats wrong with i3 wm ?
Liam Powell
Cherry picking. I love it
Caleb Myers
Get lost nigger.
Bentley Nelson
And you fucking use GNOME....
Brayden Adams
Every other post is just "Arch is bloat lel" without an explanation why.
Blake Clark
It has a built-in adblocker which works fine for most cases (anything hosted on a third-party host).
>because it uses the same proprietary library as chromium,
Huh? It uses QtWebEngine (which is a heavily stripped down Chromium). Also, how is that proprietary? Also, you can use it with QtWebKit instead.
Xavier Gonzalez
The size of the iso is 400MB The size of Debian minimal is 290 Void is about the same.
Anthony Allen
And why does that even matter? The end result is what matters.
>It has a built-in adblocker Nah, i still get ads on youtube and Sup Forums.It can't play youtube videos properly either. But what would i know, last time i used qutebrowser was a year ago.
Charles Ward
It's not 400, its half a gig ISO Size: 516.0 MB. Lmao
Parker Evans
Don't talk to this faggot guys. He uses fucking GNOME.
Jacob Allen
wew
Joshua Flores
Childish
Elijah Baker
Either learn or get out.
Carter Thompson
I just came in here to point out the obvious bullshit in the OP, I don't wank over terminal fonts.
Luis Edwards
Compiled anti-bullshit Arch explanation:
Arch has never been a minimalist distribution. Splitting packages is rare compared to other distributions, and dependencies aren't made optional whenever possible. Arch has *never* been minimalist... a Linux kernel with every module available and every feature enabled at least when there's no non-bloat related cost, feature-packed/complex GNU tools, nearly all optional features enabled across all the packages, etc.
>pacman is fast but not safe, it tends to break shit and config protection is implemented in a terrible way >there is no official process to verify that a package is stable within the distro, in other distros a lot of packages are in a testing repo despite that specific package's developer claiming it to be stable on its own, because it might not be stable within the environment of a specific distro >a lot of AUR packages pull from upstream, which means they could be very unstable >(arch vs gentoo related) arch users complain about muh compile time when it comes to gentoo, while in fact they compile a lot of AUR packages themselves, namely the *-git packages that pull the source from a git repo >but it gets even better: they only compile a handful of packages, and those not being libraries mostly, the self-compiled packages get linked against precompiled libraries from a different setup (e.g. different optimization levels), which can then cause even more instability because it's a clusterfuck of unequal shit >arch uses (((systemd))) and switching to something else is hard >apparently the vim package on arch pulls in X, so if you want to have a fancy terminal text editor on a headless server, you to install a shit ton of GUI stuff you'll never need nor use >maintainer told the guy who complained to just symlink vi to vim (vi is inferior)
Isaac Stewart
>apparently the vim package on arch pulls in X, so if you want to have a fancy terminal text editor on a headless server, you to install a shit ton of GUI stuff you'll never need nor use This one really stood out to be as particularly facetious. This general is a joke.
Parker Sanders
>general GNU/Linux minimalism thread
Luke James
Someone pastebin this lmao
Mason Brown
Congrats, the vim problem is finally solved.
Ayden Perry
saved. By the way, what does this thread think of Zile? It's a GNU C toolkit for text editors. By default it comes with a minimal version of emacs meant for quick edits. But it also says that there's going to be "Zi, a lightweight vi clone."
I am waiting for the vi-like Zile myself, I wonder how to script this though.
Josiah Young
Why are there only 10 posters in this thread Feels like im just talking to the same people
Camden Davis
That's what I'm waiting for. They say "a lightweight vi clone" vi is already quite lightweight
how much more lightweight can this get?
William Parker
ED hahaha
Carter Morales
Fwm is miniscule. It's only a couple mb. You can just uninstall it when you install another wm.
Any more substantial examples?
Adam Thomas
Vim and ex are from the same binary, that's what I want from Zi. Plus some highlighting and stuff to work on programming I need like ctags.
Levi Flores
This has been disputed, especially for QtWebEngine which strips down Chromium a lot - see e.g. issue 1167 in the parabola bugtracker (which I can't link properly because of a stupid spam filter...)
There's GreaseMonkey support since a few days, so that can be used to hide those - still, I agree better adblocking support would be nice.
As for YouTube videos, you'll need to install the matching GStreamer codecs (QtWebKit) or have a QtWebEngine compiled with proprietary codec support, then it'll work just fine (even Widevine works with QtWebEngine, i.e. Netflix/Amazon Prime).
Alexander Wilson
Guys wifi is bloat and vulnerable. Always use ethernet on your laptops and desktops
