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submitted 2 years ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:( sadness. I'm pathologically opposed to software complexity (I mean pathologically, it hurts me) and have a really nice rice set up with dwm.

GNOME's new mosaic layout project which is a few years down the pipeline looks like it might solve the problem of tiling vs teenager's desk windows management so maybe I should switch.

I actually do like the patching thing, prefer it to xmonad which needs recompiling every day that ends in Y or i3 which is about as fun to configure as fellating one of those tubular cheese graters.

Taking suggestions on fast minimalist launchers and windows managers tiling ideally (and terminals with Unicode support rxvt suuuuuuuuuuucks) if anyone has them.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're pathologically opposed to software complexity, you probably shouldn't be using a GUI at all. Many millions of lines of code are involved in turning UTF-8 into pixels on your screen, laying out widgets, driving a GPU, and so forth.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh come off it. You know what I mean, I'm already mocking myself you don't need to hit me in the kidneys.

I ran headless for a while but security risls

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org -1 points 2 years ago

I will say that it's impressive that modern GUIs, as staggeringly complex as they are, work as well and as quickly as they do, not to mention how ridiculously fast the hardware is. That's quality engineering right there.