This is a general for discussing minimal software for GNU/Linux and for helping you debloat your GNU/Linux system

This is a general for discussing minimal software for GNU/Linux and for helping you debloat your GNU/Linux system.

>What is software minimalism?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)

>Why software minimalism?
- Fewer bugs
- Better performance
- Lower memory footprint
- Better maintainability
- Higher scalability
- Longer software lifetime
- Prompt delivery
- Smaller attack surface

Acceptable GNU/Linux distributions that aren't bloat

>Alpine Linux (Not GNU)
alpinelinux.org

>Void Linux
voidlinux.eu

>GNU GuixSD
gnu.org/software/guix/

>Gentoo
wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page
gentoo.org/downloads/

>Debian (netinst)
debian.org/CD/netinst/
debian.org/releases/
wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian
debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-apt-get

>Useful links
suckless.org/rocks
harmful.cat-v.org/software/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

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

Other urls found in this thread:

harmful.cat-v.org/software/
etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

forgot the subject
/glmg/ - GNU/Linux Minimalism General

You fucked it up again. Where's Crux and Slackware?

No more fucking distros. Fuckk off you inbred cunt

meanie!

>Slackware
>not bloat
LEL

>this picture

Fuck off, user. Can't live a second without woman?

...

I used to think the same.
But apparently Slackware installer lets you pick exactly what packages you want it to have. It can literally be as minimal or bloat as you desire.
Also it doesn't use systemd.

Yeah she's bloat.
He should have put a cute loli like I did.

that whore is not minimal at all

Whores are never mimimal you virgin

Eat shit and die.

you first

Does anyone have advice on making my email more /minimal/?
Currently using Thunderbird. I tried Mutt and Alpine. Neither of them were usable (SMTP never works no matter what I try).

alpine is too minimal. use fucking debian. god such fuckin brainlets

>alpine the distro
I meant the email client...

whats the most minimal WM that supports unified theming of various qt and gtk applications? Openbox?

Your gtk and qt themes have nothing to do with your choice of WM.
Back when I actually gave a shit about themes, I used to use lxappearance to change my icons and gtk theme. qt I think has a config option to have it mimic your gtk one.

ufetch isn't working even tho I have the latest nodejs. What do?

How much of ram do you guys usually use in this thread? Just curious

...

Most of my applications are totally in the terminal!

Is there any guide for a terminal only setup? Some things would be nice to have, like a statusline for example.

Fuck minimalism.
The most minimal thing about these threads is the smart.

t. de user

dwm

180 mb

Kys

HAHAHA eat shit :^)

anyone?

70MB or so with no browser. 500MB-1GB with browser.

firefox man. sigh

Even palememe ends up using quite a bit.

yea but its whatever.

halp

Mutt isnt working? wtff

8mb without xorg 20 with it and much more with firefox running

this on a really oldlaptop

yeah.
I try to use the builtin SMTP, it fails.
I try to use postfix/sendmail or whatever, it fails.
I try to use msmtp, it fucking fails.
I try to use Alpine (the email client) as an alternative, and I have the same issue. IMAP works just fine. I can see my emails. But I can't get sending to work.

a really bad image of it without x

>10MB
wow

sigh. what distro are you using

Is she free as in freedom too?

I tried it on my MacOS host system.
It shouldn't matter though, right?

Alpine is the best
I just came here to say this and will do so for the rest of this general's life.

Not mine, but if you know how to do this, pray tell

Nigger it does mattrr. fuck off uwu nigger

>thread about minimalistic Linux
>posts picture about attention whore Nixie Pixel
No.

>Nigger it does mattrr
How??
does mutt have different config options on GNU/Linux or something?
That seems highly unusual.

YES BITCH. I KNOW YOU WERE FUCKING WITH ME. MUTT WORKS PERFECTLY FINE ON DEBIAN YOU FUCKING FAGGOT. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FISHY. YOU ARE FUCKING USE MACOS YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH MACOS ISNT FUCKING GNU. GNU IS NOT UNIX.YOU KEEP FUCKING COMPLAINING ABOUT IT NOT WORKING MULTIPLE TIMES. OF COURSE IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK, YOU ARE USING MACOS

how can you recognize someone from an image where you cant even see the face?

You're an idiot. It's easy as hell, but if your a ranger user, save yourself time. It's broken. I'm not sure if ffmpeg crashes a lot, but that was an issue as well. I'm not ready to sacrifice basic programs for the sake being cool on these threads

>getting this triggered
ok, ok. I'll try it on my void. I wasn't aware that mutt, a program that was most certainly not meant to be GNU specific, would fail on macOS.

>implying I use GUIs/desktops
Terminal only Alpine for me, friend.
Use it for my ssh purposes.
Also calling others idiots in this thread isn't cool. Refrain yourself from that next time.

I'm almost ready to do my Debian minimal install but before I got to it I'm stucked trying to figure out my lappy wireless card BEFORE going into the process.
The thing is I downloaded Speccy to check my card and the thing seems to be malware... It goes haywire and RAM usage shoots up to 2-3 GiB and locks my 4GiB lappy. I have to shut down manually.
I made a google search of Speccy malware and I got hit for CCleaner malware. Apparently CCleaner was using javascript to store info of targeted PC's on Sept '17 but apparently it's all resolved now. Makes me wonder if this is related to that.

tl;dr I'm stucked with Debian netinstall because of Speccy

I have just installed Armbian (Ubuntu based) on my Odroid XU4 but I don't need the desktop environment for jack shit. It's a headless server. How do I remove the desktop?

you realize there are plenty of semi nudes of her? she even did a calendar

install alpine

Can I install snapd on it?

>snapd
I hope not
no botnet/bloat please on Alpine

whats that and why would i want it? it came with this distro but i removed it because it was not used for anything but it was always running and wasting ram.

It's one of those new packaging systems. Flatpak would be another one.
I could see wanting one of them on Alpine, because it could allow the running of applications that heavily depend on glibc.

>3DPD
Dead thread, try again.

> Refrain yourself from that next time.

Be quiet idiot. Go massage your mom's feet for allowance

slowly making it less bloated

I actually am research funded through Alpine and ssh reasons.
Also, be nice please. We're just a small group of 20.

>in a minimalism thread
>firefox
Please use dillo only.

>harmful.cat-v.org/software/

How are libthread and libtask better than pthreads? I ask because I have little experience with pthreads and none with the two.

>musl, ucLibc, DietLibc
Same question as above. I took a quick glimpse on the documentation of one of these and they boast including less code in your source files than glibc. But how are they compared to glibc when it comes to time and memory performance of their procedures, stability, thread-safety and such?

Is Meson (a build tool) "harmful"? Is fltk "harmful"? Any non-"harmful" graphical libraries (I assume SDL is "harmful")?

>Emacs is harmful
Now that's edgy.

umm check the archives. you newfaggot

Using Void more and more daily since I'm still a winbaby because gayms but I love how it works since day 1.

How do repositories work? I'm mostly curious if I need to be worried about what software I find and install from official AUR and Manjaro repositories or is the software moderated by Arch/Manjaro?

The default one in your Linux is managed by whoever made your distribution
If you add them like in Ubuntu (the ppa thing) then that would be you telling Ubuntu to add a new repository that is not managed by Ubuntu

Here's a comparison of libcs (from the musl project)
etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

ranger works fine on Alpine you retard, you literally just comment out one line and it fixes the segfault

Anyone have any opinions on crux?

From what anons were saying in the old thread, it's one of the more minimal "suckless" distros out there.

Fuck no you nigger faggot. Im on to you. Stop spreading lies

Tbh, TempleOS is probably compromised after they caught him

that a viper-like album cover lmao love it

I installed linux like 3 weeks ago and ive tried ubuntu netinst with debian and now im on linux mint with cinnamon
Will I get fucked too hard if I try dwm with lets say debian?

no you won't. dwm should work the same regardless of distro.
Big note here though: never download it from your package manager. Always get it from suckless's website.
dwm needs to be recompiled to reconfigure it (the config file is the C header file), so getting it as a binary package means you can't tweak anything.
desu, I have no idea why distros pacakge it.

today I learned t b h translates to desu.
fuck this website.

what distro do you think would be good to try it out for a newbie like me? Im probably just going to try it out in a virtual box for a whike

what did google mean by this?

>I try to use postfix/sendmail or whatever, it fails.
So you can't send mail with postfix at all? As in sendmail "i can't stop sucking dicks" |sendmail [email protected] doesn't work? You didn't configure something in your SMTP server details correctly. Is it trying to submit to your ISP's server over port 25 instead of 587?

Omit the first `sendmail` in that example.

>Can't live a second without woman?
not really

HOLY FUCKING KEK. BAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

Definitely Debian. The only reason I left it in the OP is because it's generally a bit more newbie friendly than the others.

im still here. i took a break.

Are you original OP?

Yes faggot. There are two OPs. Me and some other fag who uses macos and has multiple vms testing minimal distros.

I'm the one posting hot bitches

I would happen to be that fag
Hi daddy!

it's in the suckless link
nmh or mmh.

nah.
I'm autistically determined now to get mutt to work.
YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME, MUTT!

eye catchers should not be 3D on an anime website

3D is best d

HOLY FUCK I FIGURED IT OUT
I needed to install some random fucking library and now it works!

fuck macos

Does dash even have a user config like mksh and bash?

I tried making a .dashrc and nothing

How am i supposed to post in the thread using dillo?

dumb phoneposter