On suckless tools [19 May 2020]

I have been using my laptop as my daily driver for a while now, since moving
into a new place a few months ago. My tower and monitors are still in the
closet, and I haven't missed them much at all. 

I had all of the suckless tools installed on the tower, and, after using xfce on
the laptop, I decided to see how it would run on dwm.

I had some issues installing dwm via apt on Debian, so I tried it from source,
and it worked just fine. I run dwm with a very minimalist status bar, called
slstatus. All I really care about is the time and date. I don't like a lot of
distractions and things that blink and refresh.

I went ahead and installed suckless' surf browser, and their st terminal. 

I had forgotten how lightweight these tools are. My low spec laptop runs like a
champ, and my fan never kicks on unless I am doing something stupid, like using
the legacy http protocol on Brave.

Overall, I am pretty happy with the suckless tools, and I think I will keep
using them. Recompiling from source after changing config.h files only takes a
few seconds, and I like being able to do whatever I want, rather than being
limited by the options that someone else decided to include in external config
files.

Picture of my dwm desktop running tmux: 
[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/I/users/developer/PHLOG/dwm_tmux.png