So, is this philosophy perfect? Far from it

Whenever suckless comes up, I see more people saying "the drama is silly" than I do actual drama. I don't even know what drama people are talking about.

It also makes for very "efficient" software, the amount of time Sent has saved me, with very minor styling modifications, makes it one of the best software I've ever used.

> I'm not going to spend days of my life digging into their source code to make the changes I want This is an odd thing to bring up though because that's quite literally the only way to make any changes to suckless software, editing source code in C. The entire philosophy behind is entirely performative in many ways. There's nothing simple or "unbloated" about having to recompile a piece of software every time you want to make what should really be a runtime user configuration, and it makes an entire compiler toolchain effectively a dependency for even the most trivial config change. I tried their window manager out once and the only way to add some functionality through plugins is to apply source code patches, but there's no guarantee that the order doesn't mess things up, so you basically end up manually stitching pieces of code together for functionality that is virtually unrelated. I…

> I recently spent a few hours evaluating different terminals. I went back to urxvt, tried Alacritty again, gave Ghostty a try, and spent quite some time configuring Kitty. After all this I found that they all suck in different ways Last time I did the same (days not hours tho lol) was somewhat surprised to find myself landing on xterm. After resolving a couple of gotchas (reliable font-resizing is somewhat esoteric; neovim needs `XTERM=''`; check your TERM) I have been very pleased and not looked back. urxvt is OG but xterm sixel support is nice.

> I went back to urxvt, tried Alacritty again, gave Ghostty a try, and spent quite some time configuring Kitty. After all this I found that they all suck in different ways. After moving to a gigantic monitor and gigantic resolutions, my poor st fork was suffering. zutty was a great replacement for me: https://git.hq.sig7.se/zutty.git

> I couldn't care less what the authors personal beliefs and political leanings are, or who they offended on IRC or social media. I agree. Such things are not relevant when considering to use their formats and programs and stuff like that. What is relevant is their software and related stuff like that, and not their political leanings, etc. I do not agree with all of their ideas about computer software, although I agree with some of them. Like them, I also don't like systemd, so I agree with them about not liking systemd. I do use farbfeld, although I wrote all of the software for doing so by myself rather than using their software (although it should be interoperable with their software, and any other software that supports farbfeld (such as ImageMagick)). Also, I do not use farbfeld for disk files, but only with pipes. (My farbfeld utilities package also includes the only XPM encoder/d…

> I couldn't care less what the authors personal beliefs and political leanings are, or who they offended on IRC or social media. I just don't really want to use or support software by people who, at best, think it's appropriate to joke about an ideology that wants me [0] dead, or at worst, actively subscribe to that ideology. There are some things that I'm not willing to look past. [0]: non-white, non-straight, left of the political spectrum

I would highly recommend the "foot" terminal if you are on Wayland and can use it. I used urxvt, termite, and briefly alacritty in the past.