this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2022
8 points (72.2% liked)
Linux
56445 readers
1114 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I would mostly agree. However, there are exceptions and customizing suckless' simple terminal (or st) is one of them. Last time I used it - which was about 5 years ago, granted - st didn't have a config file. If you wanted to change even the most trivial things such as fonts, colours, etc., you had to edit the code. As an example, here's a patch if one wanted to use the solarized colour scheme in st:
https://st.suckless.org/patches/solarized/
In these few instances, the article actually is helpful, since the user would have to compile the application from source.