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- **Focus on the technology itself** without mixing it with [politics](politics.md) and other [bullshit](bs.md) such as [COCs](coc.md).
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- Not aiming for mainstream popularity, being a bit of an **elitist club**, in the good sense -- suckless is for expert users who understand, handle and create non-mainstream technology without handholding. Trying to be normie friendly would just lead to software and community that looks like the mainstream software and its community. { My view on this is that it's not that suckless WANTS to be an elitist club for its own sake; the issue lies in mainstream technology being hostile towards ethical software -- using ethical software nowadays requires one to be very tech savvy, hence it's not suckless who is discriminating but rather those who create mainstream technology. ~drummyfish }
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Sometimes suckless is simply about being clever and [less retarded](lrs.md). Really all it takes may be only having the balls to say "ENOUGH! I'm done with this bullcrap, let do me do it right." This is well exemplified by the suckless image format [farbfeld](farbfeld.md) -- a very simple format consisting only of magic number, width and height and raw pixel values, and at first sight it might look like [bloat](bloat.md) by wasting storage space: it stores every pixel with 8 [bytes](byte.md) (RGBA, 16 bits per component). The ingenuity is in fact in leaving compression to other programs such as [bzip](bzip.md), i.e. something completely aligned with [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md) -- each tool only does one job. This combination (at least according to the author) many times beats even such sophisticated formats as [PNG](png.md). Uncompressed farbfeld is used only for image processing, where it does amazing job, it can be read and written with a few lines of code in C.
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## History
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Suckless in current form has existed since 2006 when the domain suckless.org was registered by a German guy Anselm R. Garbe who is the founder of the community. It has evolved from a community centered around specific software projects, most notably [wmii](wmii.md). Garbe has given interview about suckless in FLOSS Weekly episode 355.
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