What is why it is not being "downloaded"? It seems you don't actually understand how it works. You realize we are talking on a federated network right now, yeah? You must be trolling.
I just spent a little bit checking out suckless.org. I had heard of st before, but never really gave it any serious thought. I've been using terminator for a very long time. I've liked it because of how easy it is to split and add more terminals. That makes it easy to monitor a lot simultaneously. terminator is mainly why I've never taken the time to memorize or use the panes and windows shortcuts with tmux. However, I think I'm a new fan of st now that I'm looking at it and just tried it out. Just a stupid simple terminal that works. Love it. The ability to split terminals with terminator is a little redundant when I end up attaching to tmux anyway. Plus, I'd save time just keeping my views persistent with tmux instead of pulling each one up independently. That does get annoying. Not to mention all the other features of terminator are way too much bloat for me. st + tmux combo looks perfect and I think I am going to give it a fair shot as my primary daily driver.
Thanks for sharing. Gaining insightful info like this is the whole reason I'm taking the time to write such posts. Now I might be sucked (hehe) into trying out their windows manager, too.
I'll be editing the formatting of this a bit to see what works best for a few items. Sync on mobile and Firefox don't seem to be agreeing on how to render it.
I've been a long time user of Debian + Gnome, but I've recently been using Fedora KDE spin as my daily driver just to mix things up a bit. I'd say Fedora is on par with Ubuntu with not having to tinker too much. The only thing I think I've had to really intervene with is getting the Nvidia driver going. Everything else I use just works, and there are plenty of packages available in the repo(s) for anything I'm not building myself.
I think when people say it is a smaller target for virii, they are talking about an actual virus such as ransomware, crypto miner, adware, trojans, etc. I have zero doubt these types of virii are more targeted on Windows platforms. Linux servers on the other hand are indeed going to be the largest target for exploits. The primary mechanism by which a Linux server is compromised is going to be via an exploit, not an actual virus. That's not to say they don't exist. I administer hundreds of Linux servers in several data centers. I don't believe I've ever come across an actual virus in the last decade or so, but do deal with exploit and brute force attempts nonstop. Perhaps this is a matter of semantics. I don't consider the tools and methods used to exploit systems as a virus.
Pretty sure that is what they are saying. They are the one who initially said that in this thread. I read them saying lower user base as meaning a lower desktop user base, which you acknowledge. Or maybe you're responding to the wrong person.
Point it out and share it with everyone. That's what FOSS is all about. I bet you won't.