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
Never had a problem with any bloat on any Linux distro. Minimalism is a bullshit meme.
Adrian Sanders
BBA big black ass
Austin Sullivan
Poor girl suffering from a tumor
Zachary Walker
I've also felt the reason that move into minimalism, such as I just want to use the terminal. I feels great to have all your programs like your image viewer, music player, and browser using all the same keys, makes it really fast to get work done
Angel Ortiz
Lordosis.
Camden Kelly
My machine is fast enough to not worry about minimalism
Kevin Price
source on ass?
Chase Richardson
>OS Several >DE/WM Ratpoison >Video/Music player MPlayer, MOC >Image viewer sxiv >File Manager ranger >Text Editor Vim >Shell Bash, learn about Readline and inpurc >Web Browser NetSurf >Terminal xterm
Is there some learning curve to these different shells? Is there a way to run a bash script in something like zsh and fish
Matthew Nguyen
you can call bash from another shell but most simple bash scripts just work
Jacob Bell
What are some differences from Vim to NeoVim?
Christopher Miller
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Jayden Peterson
> OS Emacs > DE/WM LXDE > Video/Music player MPV > image viewer Default one > File Manager Pcmanfm > Text editor Emacs > Shell Emacs >Web browser Emacs > terminal Emacs
Oliver Richardson
> Lxqt and not Lxde What a sub human lmao
Logan Collins
>>OS >Emas I thought this was a meme
Tyler Scott
Hey guys, question:
How do you get st (simple terminal) to have the DEL key actually work? I tried applying the DELkey patch from their website and nothing went wrong, but I still can't use it.
Why would you do this to yourself? Qt is the only relevant framework at the moment. Call me when GTK has thumbnails in its filepicker. I won't hold my breath though, that's been a bug report since 2004 or something.
Nathan Reed
Emacs can run on most kernels that has support for glibc
Robert Bailey
Reposting Arch copypasta 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)
Matthew Evans
Reposting WM ram comparison
Ian Jenkins
Hmm looks interesting. I will definitely check it out
Has qutebrowser actually made browser faster for anyone? Wondering if it's worth getting into and supporting
John Fisher
I use it and it has potential.
Joshua Hernandez
qupzilla is a good alternative that was more lightweight for me.
Elijah Mitchell
>Arch has never been a minimalist distribution... These are mostly side effects of Arch being a binary based distribution, as opposed to a source-based distro like Gentoo. Both have upsides and downsides.
>pacman is fast but not safe... In practice I've never had pacman break a package, and it's fast by your own admission.
>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... Arch has a testing repo.
>a lot of AUR packages pull from upstream... Use another source, achieved by a simple edit of the PKGBUILD
>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 Compiling a few packages from the AUR is much easier and faster than compiling nearly every package on your system.
>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 "Can cause instability" but in my experience it works fine, and even if it doesn't the AUR is unsupported anyways.
>arch uses (((systemd))) and switching to something else is hard It's not hard, search for "Artix Linux"
>apparently the vim package on arch pulls in X... Use the Arch Build System and remove that dependency from the PKGBUILD
>maintainer told the guy... So one maintainer thinks vi is an acceptable substitute for vim, who cares?
I don't understand all the animosity surrounding Arch but based on these arguments I assume it's pettiness. If anyone wants to present some real arguments about why Arch is inferior I'll be waiting.
>fake butt that resembles a full diaper >fake nails >fake eyelashes >caked on makeup >hair extensions
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Lincoln Robinson
Sup Forums on the socially awkward right
Christopher Johnson
>WM >Video/Music player >Image viewer >File Manager >Terminal
Recently did a fresh install and I need recommendation for those above. Which WM to use with xfce ? I've been using rhythmbox for all my life, is there something worth looking for ? I don't have a clue about which image viewer to use, I didn't like most of them so used the gnome one I think. About the terminal emulator, I just want something that gets the job done and have a feat features (tabs, custimize font, colors, etc.)
Justin Moore
>WM Awesome, bspwm, i3 >Image Viewer Feh >File Manager Thunar, Ranger, Midnight Commander, or none >Terminal Personally like urxvt
Nicholas Smith
minimalism is for pussies
Sebastian Miller
sauce
Kevin Walker
She's so pretty, I wish I was her.
Juan Rogers
>I wish I was her. *I wish I was in her ftfy fageto
John Reyes
wew eventually they'll rewrite the entire kernel in elisp
Elijah Martinez
>I dont want to learn new things no matter what the benefits are
Alexander Gray
>OS ubuntu >DE/WM mate >Video/Music player mpv >Image viewer that comes with mate >File Manager that comes with mate >Text Editor that comes with mate >Shell that comes with mate >Web Browser firefox >Terminal that comes with mate
Jackson Ward
What the fuck is wrong with your dick?
Kevin Nelson
Not minimal
Kayden Foster
220MiB of ram at boot, you need consider usability too
Juan Price
What is the price of minimalism? Running shitty apps and nogames?
Ayden Jenkins
Minimalism is not about removal for the sake of removal à la Gnome 3
David Reyes
Isn't anything Unix-like pretty much the antithesis of minimalism anyway?
If we are to make a "suckless" system, wouldn't it be better to make something small, cooperatively multitasked, single address space that will boot in an instant and whose entire source code can realistically be audited by any power user? Something like TempleOS, but with full-colour high-res graphics and a network stack?
No matter how autismally code-golfed your user space is, it's going to be resting on a pretty bloated foundation that will for most users be the bedrock abstraction of their systems. I'm not saying pre-emptive multitasking and virtual memory isn't useful, but it's pretty far from minimalist in my book.
Brody Murphy
Most people aren't into bestiality.
Nathaniel Smith
OSX is the ultimate minimalism
Evan Hughes
t.ireland
Hudson Stewart
How viable is Alpine Linux for desktop use? Apparently it can't run steam or other closed precompiled binaries since it uses musl instead of glibc but apparently you can still run with chroot. Anyone using Alpine on their desktop? I really want a minimal distro on my desktop but there are certain commercial programs that I want to use like steam, spotify etc.
Original op here. Who are you OP??? Seems like all those threads paid off. Op i neeed know who you are
Parker Ross
nevermind, thanks for continuing this!
Cameron Carter
How abouts glibc Void? Similar vein to Alpine, but offers the choice of Musl or glibc.
Josiah Reed
mfw, im the original creator of this thread/general and the torch passes on. This is a weird feeling. I wanted to get that off my chest
Adrian Sanchez
>recommending debian over devuan >>>/reddit/
Sebastian Flores
devuan is gay kys nigger faggot. use gentoo or void. no one uses alpine as a daily driver. just use debian minimal and get on with your life
Jayden Edwards
they are missing out
Lincoln Cooper
I used it for a while on my X230.
IT IS FAST.
Holy shit, it used 80 MB RAM when using XFCE. Package manager is essentially instantaneous. Eventually I got tired of fighting the OS to do some basic things, but for what it is, it's the best.
Justin Peterson
Why don't you fuck off back to reddît where you belong.
Josiah Carter
Why would you unironically use anything from suckless? Their idea of "customization" is editing the source code. Suckless is complete and utter shit from meme "minimalists".
Nolan Kelly
black girls >>>>>>>>>>> white girls
Thomas Cook
I don't know how to feel about this. I literally created this general. Mfw im just a another user.
Jaxon Wood
>OS Void >DE/WM dwm >Video/Music player mpv/Spotify >Image viewer don't look at images >File Manager shell >Text Editor vim >Shell bash >Web Browser firefox >Terminal st
rate me Sup Forums
Luke Long
I couldn't get Steam working on glibc void, either. Got it working on Arch, tho. Probably best to use debian if you want to game.
Julian Young
alpine is 2x faster than void.
Justin Anderson
One thing I've learned the hard way the more complex software is, the more dependencies, and the more it can do will mean the more something can go wrong and the more configuration you need to do to get it to do what you want if something goes wrong
Liam Carter
>get work done now why you gotta lie, user
Brody Rodriguez
is xubuntu good?
Hunter Cook
Go jerk off to some moe shit anime faggot.
Tyler Perry
le epic racism maymay XD
Logan Scott
No idea why the fuck im the one providing proof.
Brandon Gomez
Why should I use LEDE on my router? Updating looks like it will be a pain in the dick
Blake Kelly
Are fake butts real? I keep hearing it as a meme, but I can't imagine anyone doing that, it working, or it being remotely safe.
Benjamin Gray
But Debian is acceptable?
Sebastian Fisher
That's just the file manager, isn't it? The meme is about file pickers within applications. So the thing you used to find that pic when you posted.
Noah Nguyen
I want to learn Kali. Am I in for a rough time?
Ethan Sanchez
>Gentoo >i3 >mpv >none >Vim >bash >Firefox >urxvt How can I make it lighter?
Levi Sanchez
It's just debian with a bunch of security tools that it comes with, it was never intended to be used for daily use
