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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](gnome) | i3wm, dwm, Xfce |
| [Windows](windows), MacOS | GNU/Linux, The BSDs, PureDarwin, Haiku |
| XML | JSON, CVS |
| [Vim](vim), Vi | nano, Emacs, ed, joe, zile, jed |
| MacBooks | [ThinkPads](/rocks/computers/thinkpads), Toughbooks |
| [Java](java), [C++](c++), [Python](python), [Clojure](clojure) | Perl, C, Common Lisp, Scheme |
| Clang | GCC, TCC |
| [Wayland](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](javascript) | Throwing yourself to an active volcano, you cannot be saved |
| Wordpress | [werc](https://werc.cat-v.org), [cleg](https://git.qorg11.net/cleg.git) |
| 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](https://riseup.net) |
| 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