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title: "suck less or suck more"
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date: "30/05/2025"
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I love [suckless software](https://suckless.org/) and the suckless philosophy. I've been using [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/), [st](https://st.suckless.org/), [dmenu](https://dwm.suckless.org/), and [slock](https://tools.suckless.org/slock/) for years. You can see my code [here](https://git.barrettruth.com).
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Simplicity is always better and I love being able to understand why things are happening. It's fun, it's quirky, it's cool.
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Except when it doesn't work.
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After years of use, I've found that suckless software is not built to be compatible with other less-sucking software. It is not compatible with running 40 ROS nodes at a time, nor 3 Chrome instances with a plethora of tabs and jobs open. I've had my st terminal go blank and my dwm crash on me consistently.
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Maybe this is the point. But I can't avoid [foxglove](https://wiki.ros.org/FoxgloveStudio), I can't avoid bloat to work for school and research-related projects. Most importantly, after spending half of my day patching st and having it crash on me, I don't feel like fixing it any longer. **Sadly, suck-ful software is here to stay and I don't have time to fight it right now.**
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I've switched to [spectrwm](https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm) (essentially [this](https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm)) and [ghostty](https://ghostty.org/).
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# update: goodbye xorg <span class="date">09/10/2025</span>
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I am now sick of Xorg and their lack of per-monitor DPI scaling. The new stack is:
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- window system protocol: [wayland](https://wayland.freedesktop.org/)
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- compositor: [sway](https://swaywm.org/)
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- dynamic menu: [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi)
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- screen lock: [swaylock](https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock) triggered by [swayidle](https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle)
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- [its](https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/issues/416) [pretty](https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/issues/169) [bad](https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/issues/306)
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