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alternatives to shitty software (self.tech)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by lostuser to c/tech

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I would assume the majority of us avoid systemd, but odds are many of us are still running different standalone components from systemd/freedesktop/redhat. Lets post some alternatives to widely used freedestkop (or other) software that "sucks less", gnu replacement recommendations are also welcome. i'll start with a few:

udevd + libudev > mdevd + libudev-zero Works on my machine flawlessly, hotplugging devices works as expected with mice, keyboards, USB audio and external storage peripherals, etc etc.

wlroots > swc X11 sucks, but so does wayland, in my opinion wlroots largely contributes to that. wlroots has a huge codebase (~60k sloc, IIRC.), is overly complex, and often makes changes which result in compositors that are dynamically linked towards it to break after it is updated. a more stable and simple alternative seems to be swc, which has a much smaller and more manageable codebase, and writing a compositor with it seems to be a much simpler task, a good example might be velox.

GNU man-db > OpenBSD mandoc

gnupg > signify signify is an extremely simple utility used to cryptographically sign and verify files. it is not a replacement for file/message encryption.

whats some alternative software that you guys use, which "sucks less"?

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[–] daddy 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who used swc/velux for some time; you might find it limited, eventually...

[–] lostuser 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In which ways did you find it limited?

[–] daddy 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Simple things you take for granted, like screenshot, aren't always implemented. That's what got me, I switched to wlr*ts cause I needed to screenshare one time and that just isn't happening

[–] lostuser 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Found this: https://git.sr.ht/~shrub900/neuswc "a fork of swc with many more features and fixes implemented, including wallpapers, screenshots, and better cursor handling"

Pretty sure its from the derive linux guys.. they seem to be doing alot of good work at making wayland "suck less".

Also see this site: https://wayland.fyi/

[–] tocariimaa 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wayland already sucks as much as X11. At least on X you can be assured that a program will work with the server, because there is really only one server used by everyone. Meanwhile in Wayland you have to cross fingers that the compositor you're using implements the whatever non-standard protocol extension to just have trivial features such as screenshots. And not even mentioning the whole "portal" fiasco. Hack on top of hack. And of course it came from Red Hat, for Linux. End of rant.