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I think that suckless softwares are great for multiple reasons:

1. They have an excellent design.
2. They are a great learning experience and a good way to learn C.
3. They are a good way to make your own tools.

• Many window manager are based on i3 which is based ondwm which itself is based on wmii, an old suckless software.
• dmenu is the de factostandard for launching applications on linux. Everyone tries to copy it.
• ii is a filesystem-based IRC client based on FIFOs which is absolutely awesome.
• st sucks, use ghostty.
• Nobody cares about the other softwares (I might make another blog post about them tho).

I'm not even talking about hacking suckless software. Simply configuring, patching and compiling these software is an experience for a neophyte linux user. Most of the time it's their first experience with C and Makefiles.

Myself I started to learn C by hacking dwm then making my own status bar for it. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed learning C that much if I had started with a boring course about pointers.

This is actually a killer feature of suckless software. Since they're really minimal it's fairly easy to extand and blot them to your liking. You could do your own web browser based on surf or your own terminal emulater based on st with insane features like the ability to click on files to open them (check this out 👀).

tldr: discord is super bloated and spies on you, but there are good community on it.

OK so first I use discord only from the browser (Ungoogled Chromium) because it helps at mitigating all the spyware and it should enhance its performance BUT discord is sooo bloated, soo full of javascript and malicious stuff that it still burn my cpu if I start to mess up with some graphic settings. Now the second part, the spyware issue, I think discord is one of the most harmful amongst all other spyware software because even privacy focused people are using it, and also because computer science university tend to only work with discord (and mail of course :P) because tHaThS wHAt StuDenTs uSE. Well actually that's a positive/negative point because everyone are on discord so it's pretty easy to find interesting people, BUT AT WHAT COST.

Okay so I don't know why some of my friends are still using VLC or some crappy video while mpv exists. Mpv is so cool like you can remotely play music or video from any site, it takes 0.1s to start (I'm looking at you VLC) and another great thing about it is that --input-ipc-server option that make it to another level. Integration to status bar, launch command like pause, play-next or stop directly from dwm or any window manager. At this point it really looks like a fancy music daemon that can also play super video. Use mpv, it's the best.

Hello everyone, I have just finished my script to automatically setup and html page and rss feed so I can type in it and do blog post easily, this one is just a test tbh.