/mg/ - Software and Hardware Minimalism General

For discussing software and hardware minimalism.

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

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

>List of minimal OSes and distros
>Most minimal
LFS

>Obscure minimal
FreeDOS, Plan 9

>Hipster minimal
Crux, Source Mage, GuixSD, Void, FreeBSD

>Autistic/sane minimal
OpenBSD, Gentoo, Alpine

>Most sane minimal
Debian (netinst)

>Minimal programs lists
Suckless: suckless.org/rocks
Cat-v.org: harmful.cat-v.org/software/
Window Managers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers
Alternatives to Bloatware: github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.

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bumo

do you guys think his penis is minimal?

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Is an intel nuc considered minimal? It's pretty tiny

That's the suckless founder guys

debian net iso is god tier

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guys i didn't know there were new versions of
2018-03-14

dmenu 4.8 released: download

st 0.8 released: download

2018-03-20

st 0.8.1 released: download

This release fixes some regressions introduced in the 0.8 release.

suckless.org/

>Install st
>Apply scrollback patch
>Shift + pageup/down just spits ;2~ into the console
Soooo....? What the fuck is this?

> Currently I'm building a custom W7 image without all the useless shit
Does it count as minimalist?

>Windows
No amount of gutting will ever make that OS minimal. Except if you're using 98SE of a hyper-stripped XP.

post screenshot

Top is config.def.h so I know the patch applied
Bottom is shift+page up/down twice then just page up/down, which just prints a ~

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try shift+ctrl+pu/pd?
just an idea
I've now switched to termite because of shit like that. Runs flawless.

That enlarges/shrinks text
I might give termite a go, I used to just use the gnome console before I properly stripped gdm garbage off my box so I'm still playing around and trying to find one I like.

I had this as well

I installed it + scrollback (which is now more lines of code than xterm...) and any time I tried to scroll with mousewheel or pageup it'd just spit out shit like that.

What do you use now?

>discord
get out.

It's just in the browser and I have to use it to talk to my normie friends, fuck off.

>Discord in firefox browser
Get out. Now. Fucking discord niggers man.

Oh would you fuck off you pedantic shitstain

discord arch niggers. bloat on top of bloat.

oh no
a tab open
how horrible

Oh no
a tab open of facebook
no biggie yaaa

fuck off.

Oh no
A false equivalence
Go fuck yourself

>discord isn't a botnet
No wonder you can't fix your own problems. Stupid bloat arch nigger

One sells your data because you willingly post it all, the other requires you install the application and give it system level access.
Guess what leaving it sandboxed in a browser tab does, you gigantic fucking idiot?

>Guess what leaving it sandboxed in a browser tab does

fucking bloat. Going through all that trouble to talk to random faggots.

>using a browser is now bloat
okay fucktard

go tell you discord buddies i btfo ur bloated ass

>saying bloat 6 times means I won! I'm the smart one!

Convince me whether encrypting my system is bloat or not.

It's not.
Encrypt your shit

Finished installing Crux, had to do it from a systemrescue cd chroot for my wireless driver to work at the start, rebooted, apparently some shit got fucked up real good on my SSD , not sure what happened, had to clear the memory cells and I get to start fresh. Gentoo, Source Mage or Crux.

Source Mage, the experience will make you a man.

You already installed Crux, probably Gentoo too, give Source Mage a try

Off to become a wizard and cast spells it is!

last I checked I could use both in browser

it is according to cat -v faggots

Best minimal file system?