Can you guys give me some tips on which packages I can remove in order to slim down my system? I'm at about 471 packages, and have already purged all the devel libraries I don't need, and have slimmed down Xorg.
Austin Sanchez
Great if you don't need javascript.
Matthew Thomas
is 471 really too much? i am at 626 and i dont mind it, it is still a very small footprint (148MB of RAM used after boot and startx)
Elijah Reyes
Is it possible to make KDE /mg/?
Nathaniel Cox
>default everything
Ryan Howard
Why does this thread has a Stacy McTits as the OP image ?
Is this for the clickbait, or are Stacies McTits really minimalists ? I thought that succubi were pretty materialists and venal.
I've noticed the more i learn my way around something the less frontends I need, until at one point I'm working primarily with backends and occasionally the libraries the backends use.
Is this what it feels like to be more minimalist, or is it simply over-complicating things for myself?
i mean he could /happen/ to have prefrences that align perfectly with the defaults. Or he could have unimpressively not bothered to change anything whatsoever..
Owen Mitchell
this why is it not possible to make a commandline browser with javascript functionality?
David Thompson
why would i need to change things that do what i need them to do?
Hunter Adams
Would it really be that hard to port webkit to the framebuffer?
if you have a good control of the system on this setup, and can install everything you can in this void linux box, this maybe is the cooles desktop that i've seen
Isaiah Cooper
Why? I pretty sure is just a pain in the ass headache to setup a nice and useful desktop in it, prove me wrong.
Jason Thomas
My non free broadcom wifi didnt work on void I tried manually installing broadcom firmware from repos After reboot wireless interface stopped loading altogether Any suggestions?
Lucas Wood
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Justin Sanders
arch niggers gtfo. Literally, you are the only arch nigger here
Anthony Sullivan
No, it's just that you're a newfag. This isn't new. Fag.
Caleb Thomas
This general is filled with posers anyway. All that talk about the importance of minimalism but bring up Wayland and you all start sweating because you know it's way less bloated than Xorg but you don't want to let go of your riced out WM that doesn't work on Wayland. Not to mention Arch is actually a minimal too. It should be called "/tilg/ - Things I Like general," because that's what it comes down to.
Liam Bailey
Tell me why the iso image for arch is 500+mb. How is that even minimal?
Eli White
So you can use Arch as a full live environment in case you need to fix something. What kind of question is that?
Carter Young
I know how to do it on debian i installed void for non systemd and basically followed the same principle but things broke
Eli Myers
Ofc it did. Look at the fucking chart. It's hipster, no one uses it expect for hobbyists
Carson Campbell
This flowchart is retarded you don't need to have a compositor for X and then according to your chart it's the same as Wayland
Aiden Nguyen
he's not the only one, and you're an unemployed pathetic pseud anyways :D Proud Arch on KDE user with more *nix, C, networking skills you will get in your entire lifetime. You have no clue what minimalism is about and how/when is useful, you just pretend. ^_^
Fuck databases. Now I'll be using index and sequential files with COBOL programs.
Austin Howard
Whats the best way to debloat my arch system?
I've tried out a couple things and have now a lot of packages, a lot more than i need, too.
I've already removed orphaned packages.
Leo Perez
Try pacman -Qm to find all the crap you installed explicitly then pacman -Rsun whatever packages you don't want.
Kevin Ortiz
Which wm has proper multi monitor support? Mainly, I want each monitor to have it's own virtual desktop unrelated to the other, So I can move between workspaces on each monitor individually
Jace Martin
/mg/ thinks multiple monitors are bloat. Just have one try hard. Also use dwm
Blake Flores
that only shows four packages. Can't be everything
Thomas Rivera
I need one monitor setup vertically for my hentai manga consumption and another one for everyday general use
Isaiah Robinson
Another option is to install pacgraph, run it and check out the generated image of your entire installation. It's not the fastest way to do things but you should be able to spot what you don't want.
how am i meant to install sourcemage? it is really really fucking old
Colton Edwards
You have to go on IRC and ask them. SourceMage is almost an invite only distro.
Nolan Anderson
igonore me im a fucking idiot, looked at the website and realised that your meant to install it through chroot
Adam Rivera
Is using DOS programs minimal, even if they're technically not? I.E. DOS word processors.
Carson Garcia
>they're technically not Why?
Carson Gutierrez
Anyone use alpine Linux? Been using gentoo for a while, while I like a lot of it in principle, I’m just not as comfy as I’d like to be on it. Is alpine a good distro worthy of a daily driver?
Nathan Morgan
The same reason that any feature-full program isn't minimalist.
Noah Baker
But that's wrong.
Michael Anderson
yeah man. The repo doesnt have any bloat. give it a spin in the vm first
Owen Barnes
>Firefox 52+ has PulseAudio dependencies hard-coded into the platform >ALSA no longer plays audio at all Soooo....? Am I just fucked into using pottershit now? What the fuck. >inb4 use an older version Slow as dogshit and no extensions supported anymore >use [browser X] Botnets, scams, or uselessly slow. >waterfox Based on an ESR branch, it's going to be dead in a month.
Firefox should be stripped from the list indefinitely. The only alternative is to download the entire rust compiler suite and build from source with a couple flags, which is completely retarded to do for a single program, especially with how unbelievably fucking bloated the rust compiler is
Justin Reed
>Am I just fucked into using pottershit now? What the fuck.
Red Hat control Linux, you big dummy.
The funny thing is that people were mad at Canonical for trying to do what RHEL had already been doing for years.
Ayden Diaz
There needs to be a common browser extension platform that works across multiple browsers. I hate Firefox for making Poettering shit mandatory, as well as the whole Cliqz, Riseup, and Looking Glass shit they did. However, I don't want to use a browser without support for Noscript, Decentraleyes, uBlock Origin, *insert cookie deleter here*, a vim keybinds extension, and so on. There's a bunch of meme Loonix browsers out there running WebKitGTK or QtWebEngine that look cool and relatively lightweight, but they support literally no extensions outside of maybe a poor-quality adblocker. If there was a complete, universal, cross-platform browser extension system, you could use whatever the fuck you wanted, and bring all your favorite privacy tools with you.
Isaac Perez
>use waterfox 56 >never worry about pulseaudio again
Jason Campbell
Like XUL? Yeah, Mozilla sabotaged that.
Christian Gray
The problem is all the people who want this kind of thing are also too fragmented about it, and the ones who aren't fragmented don't have the time to compete with web browser engines built by full-time engineers at Google or Mozilla. Even the good alternatives are outdated forks that either rely on Firefox updates to keep working, or use Chromium Botnet Blobs (tm) to get any kind of speed.
John Wilson
XUL was only for Firefox. I'm talking about something that would be 100% portable across Firefox, Chrom*, Falkon, Qutebrowser, Midori, Brave, Web, etc.
Alexander Martin
You'll also never have to worry about updates again, since it's an ESR fork and ESR is dead now.
Jose Turner
I don't see the problem here I turned off auto updates anyways because some extensions aren't updated anymore
Adam Rogers
>I don't see the problem is using web-facing software that runs client-side scripts but doesn't get any kind of updates Are you naturally stupid or did you have to practice?
Jaxson Johnson
Web browsers just seem bloated by design at this point.
Jose Thompson
It's not a browser problem it's a web problem links2 would be perfect if the internet wasn't shit
Joshua Flores
Scripts should do that. Using external applications and unix commands through and API is minimalist, and Uzbl is already doing this.
Carter Barnes
whats the command to format a usb in the terminal
Benjamin Cruz
fdisk
Nolan Bennett
I do t have the time to mess around with a source based os any longer, but still want something minimal. What’s the best option for a binary based package manag... I mean distro that is still minimal?
Bentley Lee
RTFM, but point fdisk to your device like fdisk /dev/sdc or something, but seriously, read the manual before you screw things.
Debian net don't install any DE on install, then apt-get xorg and apt-get [whatever wm you like] I just nuked my install because I did a kernel update and it completely fucked everything up, took about 15 minutes to download/install and then I just reran make install on my dwm file. wa-la.
Jaxon Ross
>wa-la this made me chuckle for a good 30 seconds. It's voila, btw.
Colton Walker
My mistake. apt-get xorg, apt-get [wm], violin.
Jacob Price
WebExtensions are going into the right direction regarding that.
qutebrowser supports that too (but in a quite limited way)
Cameron Baker
Yes, your mistake. I don't even use Debian anymore, and I know the command is apt-get install [thing]. volla
