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Suckless is at best satire and if we're being honest just plain idiotic.

Without fail every suckless person I've talked to either has no idea what they're talking about, or in the off chance they do they're incredibly shitty far right wing types who gripe on about women/minorities/CoCs ruining tech.

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Yikes, that sounds like a horrible experience. Never got that from hanging around at the Arch linux forum back in the days where their products were moderately popular.

Having said that, my general impression was that there was an inordinate amount of Plan9 cargo-culting (with some DJB fanboys mixed in). Young, idealistic people without much experience but lots of admiration for the more Bauhaus part of their elders.

That's vague. Please tell us more.

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