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I don’t think ‘lightweight Linux’ is only about low resource use. Another reason people use ‘lightweight’ systems such as Slackware, Arch, or the BSDs because such systems follow a KISS approach where it is possible to understand and know the whole system (to some extend). Also, in general, such systems are easier to debug than more complex distributions.
At any rate, I don’t see why the author cares. It is nice that there are open UNIX systems that cater to different audiences.
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I actually made a similar point to the author in a previous discussion (https://fosstodon.org/@kev/100425413313343410) and he had a fairly nuanced reply.
He argued that “lightweight” isn’t the same as “minimal/simple”. Some distros might be both, but the two concepts are distinct (at least in his usage), and his claim was that people focus too much on a distro being lightweight—perhaps at the expense of focusing on how minimal it might be.
I don’t agree that this is common usage (as I said in the previous thread), but it does cast the article in a different light—the author wasn’t arguing against systems like Slackware or Arch that might be easier to debug; he was just arguing about focusing on resource usage as a key criterion for evaluating distros (as distinct from simplicity, which he would agree is an important factor).
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Although this site is built and maintained by Netlify, it seems to use publicly available/verifiable data and not have a particular bias toward generators that work well with Netlify’s software.
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Like federico3, I was disappointed to not see my preferred static site generator included. For me, that’s Gutenberg, which follows a fairly similar model to Hugo but has an (imo) much better templating language—basically just Jinja2 or similar.
I recently switched from Hugo to Gutenberg and wrote a blog post comparing the two, in case anyone is interested in some speed benchmarks: https://www.codesections.com/blog/gutenberg-vs-hugo/
Has the author used Linux on their primary computer?
If you choose a fully fledged, GUI friendly distro, SO MUCH can go wrong. I have spent a long time battling with bloated distributions when stuff breaks. I realise that in the end, I don’t care about most of the system I am using, just a few core apps. If I can fit everything on my system in my head (I admit I don’t know most of what goes on in the kernel), I will be able to fix anything that goes wrong and keep it running smoothly.
Pick a minimal distro with a decent package manager (arch, gentoo, even ubuntu mini). The software used is usually something like:
xorg (maybe wayland soon?), i3, rxvt-unicode, vi, openssh, nvidia, git, mpd, darktable, firefox, networkmanager
A few config files and I’m good to go. So much bloat can be removed when you learn how to use your terminal emulator and a tiling window manager.
I’m not sure if this was intended as a genuine question or as a disguised insult. Treating it as a genuine question, yes, I can assure you that the author has many years of experience running Linux as his daily driver.
I agee with this (though I go with dwm and simple-terminal instead of i3 and rxvt-unicode).
That said, other people have different styles that work for them—and, despite how much l love living in the terminal—I’m not going to assume that anyone who prefers a different workflow doesn’t know how to use the terminal. And I’m especially not going to make that assumption when they’ve been using Linux far longer than I have.