Suckless.org: software that sucks less

1. chadwm

   1 20 2,597 3.5 C

   Making dwm as beautiful as possible!

   

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. awesome

   2 228 6,561 7.1 Lua

   awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)

   

   I've used awesome for years. Love it, and never really looked at anything else since I found it. It's based on a fork of dwm I guess, so maybe I would like dwm also.

   https://awesomewm.org/

4. zathura

   3 12 2,365 9.0 C

   Document viewer

   

   zathura is close enough — it's very minimalistic and supports everything under the sun: pdf, djvu, comics, epub...

   https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

5. hn-search

   4 2,013 555 2.9 TypeScript

   Hacker News Search

   

   I'm not sure how you missed it, since it comes up in practically every Suckless-related thread[1], including this one. The drama is mostly in social media and IRC circles, though it tends to spill over here as well.

   [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

6. kitty

   5 315 27,083 9.9 Python

   Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

   

   I quite liked Kitty, and wanted to keep using it. But the slow startup was a deal breaker for me. Even with `--single-instance` it was at least 5x that of st for me, which is noticeable for an app I use very frequently. Besides, I'm not a fan of running a single instance of any app, since if (when) it crashes, all my work is gone.

   Then I had a look around their issue tracker, and noticed others complained about this too[1]. And the dismissive and defensive response from the author just rubbed me the wrong way.

   [1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330

7. dwm-commented

   6 5 414 4.7 C

   A fork of dwm with comments explaining in detail how the window manager works

   

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