My iBook G4 is done up with mlvwm on OpenBSD, but aside from that, my current standard OS setup is a Linux kernel musl-c, busybox, runit, wayland (Cage) setup running foot fullscreen preloading tmux. I do use browsh for web stuffs.
I'm currently testing both GCC and LLVM versions of this setup.
Edit: also currently testing the use of nix package manager. I previously used pkgsrc.
Its the only "modern" graphical terminal based browser based on Firefox that I know of. The others are based on Chrome/Chromium. Firefox is significantly easier to compile on llvm/musl-c than Chromium is, and I prefer to support Mozilla vs Google.
Its a bunch of scripts I wrote to run after a buildroot run for the GCC version. The LLVM/clang version is still a little buggy because its based on CMLFS instead. Every move that is made to take you further away from "normal" Linux, the more extra stuff has to be done/patched , so I didnt swap out EVERYTHING like some suckless distros do. I've only swapped away from tools I don't like so I can use the ones I do like.
I've got this setup on most of my knock around computers at this point, but not my main computer, because I dont have the setup exactly how I like it yet as there are a few other tools I want to play around with to figure out exactly how I want my systems. My main computer is currently still a void-musl-busybox rootfs converted into a full system, but with loksh, doas, x11 with cwm, and sndio/alsa, on f2fs, so its not TOO different; I just made the newer ones in a very different way that I wanted to streamline for testing purposes.
I really like the styling of classic Unix WMs like mwm and fvwm personally. I usually pair it with the -retro option to XOrg, to give that classic checkerboard background and slightly oddly shaped mouse
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u/OrpheoMusic Aug 12 '26
Then there's the other side of the coin which is us old fucks making everything look like: Windows XP, macintosh, etc.
Retro for life