Software considered harmful
In the sidebar on the left, you can find why i consider some points of the software bad.
I did not fall for the minimalism meme, but sometimes Minimalistic software less bad than non minimalistic software. Sometimes a “bloated” program is way better than non bloated ones, for example, Emacs vs Vim. Or Firefox vs Surf.
Here you can find a table (Consider this as a TODO) I am not including GNU utilities because, altough they don’t follow standards, their extensions are kinda useful. So I don’t consider them harmful.
| Harmful things | Better alternatives |
|---|---|
| KDE, Gnome | i3wm, dwm, Xfce |
| Windows, MacOS | GNU/Linux, The BSDs, PureDarwin, Haiku |
| XML | JSON, CVS |
| Vim, Vi | nano, Emacs, ed, joe, zile, jed |
| MacBooks | ThinkPads, Toughbooks |
| Java, C++, Python, Clojure | Perl, C, Common Lisp, Scheme |
| Clang | GCC, TCC |
| Wayland | X11 |
| GTK, QT | Tk, curses |
| Intel, Realtek, Broadcom network drivers | Atheros (ath9k/ath5k compatible) |
| Object oriented programming | Procedural, or even better, functional programming |
| Electron | Throwing yourself to an active volcano, you cannot be saved |
| Wordpress | werc, cleg |
| Chromium, G**gle Chrome, Safari, M*cr*soft Edge, Brave, Opera, Opera Gaming, Vivaldi | Firefox, Librewolf, Qutebrowser, Palemoon, GNU IceCat, Goddamit, Even surf is better than those browsers |
| G**gle Search, Bing | DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant and the best of all, Searx |
| WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter DM’s, Discord | IRC, xmpp, Matrix, Mumble |
| Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail | Self hosted email server, Riseup |
| s̜̣͕͠y̹̼̮̱̞͇͢s̟̺̮̼̳ṱe̴̞̜͙m̱͜d̼ | runit, OpenRC, SysVinit |
| GPL, LGPL | BSD, MIT, VPL, AGPL |
| pacman, dnf, yum, dpkg | xbps, apt, emerge, pkg |
| Steam, Epic Games store | GOG (Just the game installer, not the gog galaxy thing) |
The programs here are worse than useless so they require no alternative:
- Adobe Flash
- Microsoft Office