mayfrost-guides/ALTERNATIVES.md

ALTERNATIVES TO BLOATWARE

The list is built pointing to software that have alternatives with less dependencies, and addressing dependencies was the easy thing to do. One thing tho, some particular tools were included because they add less dependencies overall while keeping a system functional. One such example is imagemagick and ffmpeg, by which you can do a lot of work and replace many tools by just using those with scripts and replace something like a screenshot utility. TL;DR is about the unix principle and you can have a fully functional system pretty damn minimal with that.

Certainly it would be great to have a comparative on resource usage tho. Wanna help?

• Terminal Pager: less -> most

• Chat Client: Pidgin -> Finch (+ irssi mode) -> Centerim -> Bitlbee

• E-Mail Client: Thunderbird -> Alpine -> Mutt

• RSS Feed and Podcast: Liferea -> Newsbeuter -> Newsboat

• IRC Client: HexChat -> Weechat -> Irssi

• VoIP: Skype -> Mumble -> Linphone -> sscall

• Application Launcher: GNOME Do -> ratmenu -> dmenu -> pdmenu -> slmenu

• Compositing Window Manager: Compiz -> Compton -> Xcompmgr

• Display Color Temperature: flux -> Redshift -> sct

• Graphical Settings: Wpgtk -> LxAppearance -> GSettings -> xsettings

• Keybinding: Xbindkeys -> sxhkd -> loadkeys (+ keymaps)

• Wallpaper Changer: FEH -> hsetroot -> xsetroot -> imagemagick (but use 10MB more RAM than the others)

• CD-DVD Burn and Copy: K3b -> Brasero -> cdw

• Device Management: Udisks (+ udevil) -> pmount -> bashmount

• Virtual Machine: VirtualBox -> AQEMU + kvm -> Qemu + kvm

• Batch Renamer: GPRename -> qmv (renameutils)

• Duplicate Files Removal: dupeGuru -> Fdupes

• File Archiver: PeaZip -> Xarchiver -> Atool

• File Manager: SpaceFM -> Ranger -> Midnight Commander -> noice

• File Scraper: JDownloader -> youtube-dl -> cclive -> Plowshare

• FTP Client: FileZilla -> lftp

• Torrent Client: qBittorrent -> RTorrent -> transmission-daemon (+ transmission-remote-cli, or use the web interface that comes with transmission-daemon)

• System Information: zCI -> screenfetch -> inxi

• Disk Usage: QDirStat -> Baobab -> xdiskusage -> Ncdu -> df

• System Monitor: gnome-system-monitor -> Conky -> htop -> nmon -> top

• Multiple Audio Streams: pulseaudio -> apulse

• Audio Editing: Audacity -> SoX

• Audio Mixer and Equalizer: pavucontrol -> Qastools -> alsa-utils + Alsaequal

• Metadata: Easytag -> Beets -> ExifTool

• Screenshots: Shutter -> scrot -> maim -> ImageMagick

• Screencasting: Open Broadcaster Studio -> SimpleScreenRecorder -> FFmpeg

• Video Transcoding: HandBrake -> WinFF -> FFmpeg

• DNS Resolution: Unbound + NDS -> BIND9

• Network Manager: Wicd -> NetworkManager -> ConnMan -> SetNet

• Ebook Viewer: Calibre -> Zathura

• Printers: CUPS -> LPR

• Word Processor: Libreoffice Writter -> Abiword -> MinEd -> WordGrinder + pandoc

• Spreadsheets: Libreoffice Calc -> Gnumeric -> SC-IM + pandoc

• Text Editor (and IDE): Emacs (nox) -> Vim -> Nano -> Vile -> xwpe -> GNU Zile

• Disk Cleaner: BleachBit -> bleachbit_cli -> shred

• Storage Encryption: VeraCrypt -> tcplay (TrueCrypt implementation) -> Keyringer -> Tomb

• Password Manager: KeePassX -> kpcli / pass (+ pass-tomb)

• Version Control: Git (+ tig) -> Fossil -> RCS

• Configuration Management: Puppet -> CFEngine -> cdist

• CAD: AutoCAD -> FreeCAD -> OpenSCAD

• Graphing Calculator: KAlgebra -> GraphMonkey -> Maxima + PLplot

• Firewall: gufw -> ufw -> iptables -> nftables

• Cloud: Google Drive -> Nextcloud -> vsftpd -> sftp

• E-Mail Filtering (LDA): Dovecot -> procmail

• E-Mail Server (MTA): Postfix -> Exim -> cmail

• E-Mail Spam Filter: DSPAM -> SpamAssassin

• VPN: OpenVPN -> WireGuard

• Web Caching: Decentraleyes on a web browser -> Squid

• Web Filtering: Ad blocker on a web browser -> Pi-hole -> Privoxy

• Web Server: Apache -> Nginx -> lighttpd -> darkhttpd -> Bucktooth (+ Bucky)

• BIOS: Coreboot -> Libreboot

• Boot Loader: GRUB 2 -> GRUB Legacy -> SYSLINUX -> LILO (or ELILO for UEFI)

• Service Manager: SysVinit + bum -> SysVinit + OpenRC -> sinit (+ daemontools-encore or perp)

• IPC: DBus -> ipcs

ANDROID APPS

• Launcher: Silverfish
• Facebook: Tinfoil for Facebook
• Twitter*: Tinfoil for Twitter
• YouTube: NewPipe
• E-Books: Document Viewer
• Notes: miniNoteViewer

All apps are from F-Droid, may not be much but is a start.