MindPatch/awesome-linux-minimalism

❌ Avoid

any linux distro use systemd and this why

• Arch linux
• Ubuntu
• Mint
• Debian

✅ Instead use

• use linux distro use init system like runit or opencl
  • if you want something cool and very light, use Alpine
  • if you love Debian and you want to use APT ,use Devuan
  • if you love Arch Linux and you want to use PACMAN ,use Artix
  • if you need to use something useful and from scratch distro with awesome Community ,use Void Linux

• Abaco - A graphical web browser for Plan 9 that supports most of HTML 4.01.
• Conkeror - A Gecko based browser, with Emacs-style key bindings, appearances and behaviors.
• Dillo - Blazingly fast graphical browser with basic CSS support.
• edbrowse - ed-alike webbrowser. Unfortunately it is not the standard web browser.
• ELinks - Feature-rich fork of Links, but without the graphical mode.
• Links - A text-based browser that also has a simple graphical mode.
• Lynx - text-mode web browser, supports the Gopher protocol.
• netsurf - Very fast graphical browser with custom engine that has near-perfect CSS support.
• surf - WebKit2 browser that can be embedded into other applications and uses dmenu as the address bar.
• Tridactyl - A WebExtension that tries to make Firefox Vim like. Unlike many similar extensions it works with firefox 57+.
• uzbl - Web interface tools which adhere to the UNIX philosophy.
• VimFX - Vimperator (Doesn't work with Firefox 57+)
• Vimperator - An extension to make Firefox keyboard friendly and Vim-like. (Doesn't work with Firefox 57+).
• w3m - Text-based browser which can view images in the terminal (X11 hack).

❌ Avoid

• VSCODE
• pyCharm
• any GUI IDE

✅ Instead use

• acme - Rob Pike's framing text editor for Plan 9. Included in plan9port.
• ed - ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!
• ired - A minimalist hexadecimal editor and bindiffer for p9, w32 and *nix.
• mg - A portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.
• helix - A post-modern modal text editor heavily based on Kakoune written in Rust.
• mle - A small, flexible console text editor.
• nano - A pico clone - this is small simple code and easy to use.
• nvi - A small, multiple file vi-alike.
• micro - A terminal text editor, written in go with common key bindings like ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste.
• sam - An editor by Rob Pike with inspiration from ed.
• traditional vi - A fixed version of the original vi.
• vim (With the GUI, use :set go+=c to kill popup dialogs). It can be compiled to be as minimal as possible (see vim-tiny in Debian repos).
• vis - A modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.
• wily - An acme clone for POSIX.

❌ Avoid

• Gnome
• Cinnamon
• KDE

✅ Instead use

I advise you to use Window Manager instead of Desktop Enviroment but if you want Desktop Enviroment use this list

• XFCE
• MATE
• lxqt
• lxde
• enlightenment

• DWM,- very very customizable/minimal window manager (customizable by code)
• i3-gaps - Window Manager (customizable by conf file)
• bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
• IceWM - speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way. It comes with a taskbar with pager, global and per-window keybindings and a dynamic menu system.

❌ Avoid

• Terminator
• cool-retro-term

✅ Instead use

• ST - lightweight/customizable terminal by Suckless Team you need to patch your terminal and add/remove what you want from code and recomplie it :D
• RXVT - lightweight/customizable terminal
• mtm - Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.
• Alacrity
• Kitty - the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
• TYM
• Sakura
• dvtm
• contour - Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
• rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.

❌ Avoid

• any GUI File manager , it's lightweight yes but with big files it's take more time

✅ Instead use

• Ranger - command line file manager written in Python
• LF - Command line file manager written in GO (alternative for Ranger - Python File manager)
• NNN - Command line file manager written in C
• FFF - command line file manager written in bash
• sfm - simple file manager

❌ Avoid

• Offical Spotify Player
• offical Deezer Player

✅ Instead use*

• ncspot - Command line spotify player for linux
• dzr - Command line Deezer player for Linux

• aerc - email client for your terminal.
• fdm - fetch and deliver mail.
• heirloom-mailx - A mail client based on the original Berkeley Mail 8.1 with many new features.
• isync - MDA that can work better for IMAP, also known as mbsync.
• mblaze - UNIX utilities to deal with Maildir.
• mmh - Meillo's mail handler (mmh), a fork of nmh.
• mpop - a POP3 mail client. It is much faster and simpler than fetchmail.
• mutt - A ncurses mail client for fetching, reading and sending email.
• nmh - Message Handling System.
• plan9port/Mail - A mail client for acme. Included with plan9port.
• s-nail - An improved heirloom-mailx.

• herbe - Daemon-less notifications without D-Bus. Minimal, lightweight & written in C. You can use tiramisu to call herbe.
• tiramisu - Tiramisu is a notification daemon based on dunst that outputs notifications to STDOUT in order to allow the user to process notifications any way they prefer, like in your dwm statusbar for example.

• ffplay - FFplay is a very simple and portable media player. It came with ffmpeg which depends on mplayer.
• MPV - Command Line/GUI Media player, also you can watch youtube videos without ads with MPV
• ncmpcpp
• mocp

• feh - A highly customizable image viewer that can also set a desktop background image.
• imv - Simple X11/Wayland Image Viewer. Depends on SDL2 and FreeImage.
• jpg/gif/bmp/png - Simple programs from Plan 9 to display images in no-frills windows. Included with plan9port.
• lel - Farbfeld image viewer.
• meh - image viewer using raw XLib, libjpeg, libpng and libgif.
• page - Plan 9's image/document viewer program. Included with plan9port.
• qiv - Quick Image Viewer.
• sxiv - Simple (or small or suckless) X Image Viewer. Depends on xlib and imlib2.
• xli
• xwallpaper Minimalistic wallpaper utility
• xzgv

• pass - "The standard UNIX password manager".
• spm - Simple password manager (actively maintained fork of nmeum's tpm).
• tpm - Tiny password manager.

• C* Music Player - aka cmus, an ncurses music player that can be controlled with a UNIX socket.
• moc - console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
• mpd - A client/server based music player with console and graphical front-ends.
• mpg123 - A console MPG player which doesn't use auto*hell or extra libraries.
• mpg321 - A command-line MP3 player.
• mus - Modular daemon/client CLI player consuming a plaintext album directory queue
• vorbis-tools (Ogg/FLAC) - Command-line tools to play Ogg and FLAC files.

• FFMPEG - leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created
• ShotCut - Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

• Image Magick - simple Command Line Image editor
• GIMP - The Free & Open Source Image Editor

• maim - takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options to take only a region, and relies on slop to query for regions. maim is supposed to be an improved scrot.

• ksnip - is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
• flamshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software

• scort - command line screen capture utility

• 9menu - A menu program based on the Blit-style menus so prevalent in Plan 9.
• dmenu - dmenu is a dynamic menu for X.
• ffcast - Simple screencasting.
• grabc - Grab the color of some pixel in X11.
• keynav - A new way for keyboard selection.
• wmutils - A set of utilities for managing windows. Can be used on their own or to augment a WM itself. Support for tiling present.
• xbanish - Hide the cursor while typing.
• xclip - A tool for controlling the X11 clipboard.
• xdotool - A tool for scripting X11 actions.
• xzoom - A simple zoom application.

• nitrogen
• feh

• ZATHURA - lightweight/customizable Document viewer
• GV - GV allows viewing and navigating PostScript and PDF documents on an X display, by providing a graphical user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter

• Quark - quark is an extremely small and simple HTTP GET/HEAD-only web server for static content.

• darkhttpd - Darkhttpd is a simple, fast HTTP 1.1 web server for static content.
• merecat - thttpd with vhost support.
• mini_httpd - By the thttpd developers. Even smaller subset of thttpd with support for .htpasswd, CGI, dirlisting, HTTP errors and SSL, nothing more or less than that.
• OpenBSD httpd/relayd - Designed to combat the feature creep of modern webservers. Boasts concise configuration, with sane defaults.
• thttpd - Outperforms many bigger httpds. Old, still works very well!

• saait - simple html pages generator
• stagit - simple html page generator for GIT

• slock - Simple X display locker. This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of

• trash-cli - Minimal CLI recycle bin written in Rust 🦀