[tetris11]

I see suckless[0] tools as the spiritual successor to GNU. Free, open source (and I think copyleft?), minimal, and encapsulates a comprehensive desktop experience.

I think no-bloat should be GNUs next philosophy.

0: https://suckless.org/

[kdtsh]

Call me crazy but my idea of a comprehensive desktop experience doesn’t involve recompiling tools like my terminal emulator or WM to change configuration.

‘No-bloat’ is kind of antithetical to GNU, where the various applications give you everything and the kitchen sink with as many compilation flags as you like to rip out features if you really don’t want them. But one person’s bloat is another person’s fully featured system; I don’t think projects should be opinionated about ‘bloat’ if they don’t want to alienate some section of potential users.

[foul]

And its wonky spinoff bitreich

[gapan]

I had to look this up. Made me laugh, thanks!

http://www.bitreich.org/

edit: oh, there's a page redirection after a while. NSFW warning, but still funny.

[foul]

The real meat with those fine folks is reachable via gopher.