Built this as a guide for users of my hosting service. Everything here was run on a real instance. The Mesa/LLVM dependency is genuinely painful on a 1GB disk, and I couldn't find a way around it. WindowMaker won the window manager battle purely on dependency chain cleanliness; it pulls in no GTK, no Python, no audio stack. Happy to answer questions about any of the choices made. Screenshots at the end.
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Imustaskforhelp•1h ago
Hey backtogeek! I see you on lowendtalk quite often, Its amazing to see you on hackernews as well!
(Tierhive is amazing btw, I have used it and I do quite like the idea of minimalism and you are well regarded within the lowendtalk when we talk about Minimalist vm's for example)
Although hackernews doesn't have a discussion, I am commenting as a form of appreciation method. It was a good surprise to reading the domain name of this post and your name on hackernews :-)
Also I do wonder what is the intersection of people who use both lowendtalk and hackernews.
Imustaskforhelp•1h ago
(Tierhive is amazing btw, I have used it and I do quite like the idea of minimalism and you are well regarded within the lowendtalk when we talk about Minimalist vm's for example)
Although hackernews doesn't have a discussion, I am commenting as a form of appreciation method. It was a good surprise to reading the domain name of this post and your name on hackernews :-)
Also I do wonder what is the intersection of people who use both lowendtalk and hackernews.