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I see suckless[0] tools as the spiritual successor to GNU. Free, open source (and I think copyleft?), minimal, and encapsulates a comprehensive desktop experien

I see suckless[0] tools as the spiritual successor to GNU. Free, open source (and I think copyleft?), minimal, and encapsulates a comprehensive desktop experience. I think no-bloat should be GNUs next philosophy. 0: https://suckless.org/ https://suckless.org/

foul 3y ago
And its wonky spinoff bitreich
- gapan 3y ago
  I had to look this up. Made me laugh, thanks! http://www.bitreich.org/ http://www.bitreich.org/ edit: oh, there's a page redirection after a while. NSFW warning, but still funny.
  - foul 3y ago
    The real meat with those fine folks is reachable via gopher.
kdtsh 3y ago
Call me crazy but my idea of a comprehensive desktop experience doesn’t involve recompiling tools like my terminal emulator or WM to change configuration. ‘No-bloat’ is kind of antithetical to GNU, where the various applications give you everything and the kitchen sink with as many compilation flags as you like to rip out features if you really don’t want them. But one person’s bloat is another person’s fully featured system; I don’t think projects should be opinionated about ‘bloat’ if they don’t want to alienate some section of potential users.