#SuckLess

[stumped-on-bennington]

Me: "how can you tell that I'm mentally ill and gay??"

The books I own:

[unixbhaskar]

Linux Fancy Scripts To Mount And Unmount Disk Via Dmenu 2025_05_14_03:48:50

[niconiconwo]

My hate for google and mozilla vastly overshadows how much I dislike dealing with FSF fuckery so Librewolf is my big hope.

I'd absolutely prefer dealing with Stallman's estranged mentally deficient cultists over either of the other two any day.

[melissa-titanium]

hello gamers. im trying to think of more overwhelming and cool effects i can add to this but i;CAN t 💔💔 its ok uzi is full of swagger and awesomeness on her own :) i did another redraw but it turned out Less than satisfactory! so i'm gonna do a different one hopefully it will suckLESS!!!

[dwm-official]

suckless software sucks, actually.

[zsh-official]

Why has there never been a ultra lightweight Linux vacuum cleaner?

Because nobody wants a vacuum cleaner to suckless

[aqwult]

sucks that the suckless blurb about developers being proud of how many lines of code they generate is a widespread mindset programmers have and not some far away 2nd year compsci attitude that they'll grow out of before they graduate

[mirqmarq428]

Suckless tabbed is so fucking broken oh my god

ik im on Wayland but still

but i seriously need tab groups like 22 is too many tabs

[highlyflammablebark]

My apologies sire, but ye would appear to be both suckless and fuckless

[daemonhxckergrrl]

what's good about alacritty? i admittedly know jack shit about why one would choose a different terminal emulator and mostly used the default one, then used kitty for a while for no particular reason except that i liked the name, i knew people who used it and i knew the guy created calibre, which is a software i often used at the time so i used it, although i have since heard he is an asshole or something? do some of them have default keybindings that make things easier to use or something? or do people use diff emulators to reduce bloat or something adjacent to that?

terminal emulator preference is mostly about features, your DE/WM, and how you prefer to customise stuff.

i really liked kitty and originally picked it partly for the name and modern features:

GPU acceleration

multiple terminals on a single 'instance' - reducing memory overhead

glyph/emoji/ligature support

it's also highly configurable and the configuration options are well-documented.

however, i ran into a ton of small issues:

kitty w/ TERM=xterm-kitty ironically causes more issues processing certain key combos and escape codes than setting it to xterm-256color (not officially supported in kitty)

the dev is aware of TERM=xterm-kitty issues but won't fix them

alacritty uses TERM=alacritty and works fine

kitty bugs out when running neovim inside a dtach session via my resnvim.py wrapper script; alacritty and xterm have no such issues

kitty also bugs out when sending neovim files/commands via --remote and --remote-send while alacritty and xterm are fine

the dev considers multiplexers like tmux a "horrible hack" and is uninterested in supporting them inside kitty

he's also uninterested in adding tmux-style sessions (despite kitty having the other main feature of tmux: splits and tabs)

he's not as hostile as the hyprland devs, but kitty is feature-rich, why get mad when people ask for features they use daily in other terminals ?

alacritty, by contrast, has none of these issues. it supports the features i mentioned earlier, is highly configurable, has a native vi mode, supports custom actions for different URL/URI types (again user-configurable and supports regex), and leaves things like tabs and splits up to either a multiplexer like tmux or your window manager. so far, the community and devs don't seem to be hostile (despite it being "suckless"-type software and the suckless community being known for hostility too).

[unixbhaskar]

Dmenu Applied Patch For Multiple Items Select Feature 2024_11_23_04:19:06

[thexencrystal]

gordon would use suckless projects, too bad it didnt exist in 2003

[hackernewsrobot]

Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer

https://codeberg.org/drummyfish/small3dlib

[gmos]

gonna start saying suckless as a synonym for gormless

[niconiconwo]

cohost looks interesting, but unfortunately the team that heads it up, antisoftware software club, is essentially the faggot tumblr loser version of suckless which means I don't think I'd vibe there. I can tolerate all of them being furries but being heckin' chronically-online types is a show-stopper for me. Unless it's just an optics thing idk.

I will admit it's groovy their tumblr-clone was formed as a nonprofit. But then again that could just be a tax workaround or some other corpo style grift. And don't get me wrong, they have a lot of good software industry takes I generally agree with.

[hydralisk98]

Handcurated resources

Just some suggestions for developement ideas tbh.