Minimalism
(this post has been written by someone who was a hardcore minimalist and who used Hyperbola in the past but is now content with "non-minimalist" tools such as Emacs and systemd)
Least minimalist Hyperbola user: has no graphical environment, does everything through command-line, uninstalls the package manager because it's unnecessary bloat, no dbus, no systemd, no background processes running, asynchronous execution of processes is disabled because it is unnecessary bloat, programs are compiled directly as part of the shell because having separate programs is bloat, no multitasking, no zstd because it's corporate Faceb00k bloat, laptop levitates due to lightweightness in operating system,
Most minimalist Trisquel user: computer constantly swapping, installs 300 extra Emacs Lisp packages into Emacs because default Emacs isn't a feature-rich-enough operating system, 99% of the system packages are provided by systemd, user never has to get out of bed because computer has become sentient and does the user's laundry, user unironically uses a Desktop Environment rather than a window manager, switches away from LXDE after learning that KDE is more bloated, has both KDE and GNOME installed so that perse can have all the programs from both desktop environments, uses algorithm to automatically upscale all images viewed in the web browser to 4K, smoke comes out of computer and computer is used for warmth in winter
I still use Hyperbola on a few of my computers. I have four main ones, one of which is not in great shape that uses Hyperbola.
My t430 which kind of feels like its not as sturdy as it used to be.
And my X230 which I still use pretty regularly.
The other two each use a different distro, one is devuan and one debian.
I admit, systemd isn't as shitty as I thought. It still makes me nervous due to the code size and the concept of doing one thing and doing it right, sounding more sane to me. but I am surprised how fast it works on ARM64 devices even in boot.
I guess x86 is more borked than ARM64 with systemd.
Like literally, it booted in 2 seconds. Although, it could also be that I had no full disk encryption minus boot. I prefer to do this usually.
Btw, you don't need to be that minimalist on Hyperbola.
I use JWM, JWMKIT and that's frankly good enough for me.
