No.381
What do they even use computers for?
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No.384
Circlejerking and nothing else, really.
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No.387
Computing, what else? Most suckless software gets out of the way and lets you do your work properly. I say most because surf and farbfeld are complete memeware with no right to exist.
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No.391
>>387
And what does this "computing" involve?
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No.392
>>384
No suckless utilities are quite useful. You don't need to be dogmatic about it and replace every program possible with their stuff but some come in really handy when nothing else is quite right, like st and dmenu.
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No.394
>>392
It is ironic that you mention st, because it's worse than xterm in every single way.
>muh loc count
Completely irrelevant to you as a user.
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No.395
>>381
I'll always stick to the PC and laptop. Never touched any one of those mobile gadgets and never will.
PS: smartphones have ruined the internet.
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No.400
>>394
>completely irrelevant to you as a user
you forget that, as a user, I frequently want to modify the source
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No.413
>>394
>it's worse because i say so
nod an argumend
>Completely irrelevant to you as a user.
Unless you regularly modify your software instead of gobbling up whatever upstream serves you. Ever tried to patch GNU shitware?
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No.434
>>4000
You forget that, despite what you may claim, you actually don't do it nearly as often as you believe for anything that isn't FizzBuzz.
>>413
xterm has measurably much lower latency than st. Fact.
>GNU shitware
If being faster, more secure and with more options qualifies as "shitware" to you, I suggest you re-evaluate your entire life.
Unlike Suckass software, it doesn't need to be "patched" for regular usage because it actually works.
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No.436
>>434
>no you don't do this because I can't imagine anyone doing it everybody is like me
>muh latency
Stop roleplaying on an anonymous imageboard already, it's embarrassing. Instead, try reading the blogpost you mindlessly parrot for once: It has different measurements for MacOS and Linux, with st solidly around 20ms on the latter system.
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No.437
>>436
>roleplaying
I doubt that term means what you think it means.
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No.438
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No.440
>>437
Your doubts are unfounded.
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No.472
>>434
>you don't modify the source very often
this proves the opposite of what you think. The less often I have to dig into the source, the less time I want to waste remembering how it works.
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No.490
>>472
No, you'd have to be completely out of touch with reality and common sense to arrive to that conclusion.
The more often you have to fuck around with the source to get something to work, the more time you waste… well… actually fucking around with the source.
Besides, Suckless software isn't even any easier to understand than most other software. Retards on these boards only think it is because it 's small, but if you actually bothered reading the code, you'd see it's a complete mess, especially dwm, no to mention littered with horrendous Cnile-tier practices such as overly terse variable naming, "clever" tricks with pointers to save lines, and so on.
You don't really have any idea what you're talking about, and pretending you tinker with source code of the software you use on a regular basis isn't a good way to pretend otherwise. And if you really do, well, your time has quite limited value.
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No.500
>>490
Suppose I wanted to make a single modification to the code. If I use st, that modification is over and done with in half an hour. If I use xterm, I'm looking at several hours. Whichever I choose, I'm stuck with it as long as I want that modification in my terminal. Suppose a year or two later I want to make another change. Anything I learned about the xterm source code is now forgotten, so I'd be starting over from scratch.
>muh terse variable names and pointers
I guess it makes me "senile" that I can remember what a variable does without the name reminding me, and that I can figure out where a pointer dereference goes? The suckless people aren't perfect, but they mainly write idiomatic c code, which is the easiest kind to read. In this case, less source code to read and understand really is where the value lies.
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