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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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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nazi nonsense aside,

when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

That's the thing here: It REALLY sucks. Which sucks for a project that calls itself "suckless".

[–] 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.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

Or I would accept trying something a bit chubby if people have reasons to recommend it. Like sure it slows down the hellbox but it detects when your concentration is flagging and makes you a coffee type shit. Just no transparency effects, Jesus fuck I hate transparency effects. It's like "hey want to spend more power rendering something that's harder to parse visually?" umm no? who wants that? why would you want that?