netbsdnoob searching for a more minimal web browser
I hate to say it but unless your websurfing habits are extremely limited alternative browsers beyond the ones integrating current versions of the big rendering engines into less bloated interfaces won't be much use to you. I've been searching for holy grail of lightweight browsers for a long long time and guess what i am using these days: Firefox... I might try switching to Librewolf at some point but that's pretty much what i meant by current engine integrated into a less bloated UI.
The basic problem is that as soon as one ventures outside of browsers based on current Gecko/Blink/WebKit engines websites using modern features will start to fail rendering correctly and sadly by now this means a lot or even most mainstream websites. I've been a Palemoon user for many years and even it being pretty much just a somewhat dated Firefox will simply break left and right these days (besides being awully slow due to having to emulate a lot of stuff - also doesn't help much anymore if you know all the common ducttape...) and the developers know they (like pretty much any alternative browser project) don't have to resources to fix the problems or keep up with the ever evolving web standards in general.
TL;DR: If you are looking for a minimal browser that still lets you browse the web you should look for project building a minimal UI around current versions of one of the big rendering engines. Sad but true...
netbsdnoob what about for listening to music? there is no spotify i guess for netbsd
While i am not a NetBSD desktop user yet i am pretty sure there is an audacious package somewhere. What else could one need to listen to music? 😉
netbsdnoob what do you use as status bar? and for shutdown/reboot?
Same disclaimer as before (not a NetBSD desktop user yet) but you could probably also borrow IceWMs bar. It's a standalone executable and should work with any WM.
As for shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate/... i have found those to be the first situation where sudo seemed to make some sense to me. I basically allow my user to execute a script as root through sudo that does the mentioned actions and add the actual commands to my menu config. Voila.
netbsdnoob also do you guys use something to browse youtube videos? instead of a browser?
No, i don't and i am also not sure why one would want to do this but i guess you could launch a browser window without any extra decorations (depending on the browser being used of course but think something between kiosk mode and a simple profile with no menus or status bars) and point it at an invidious instance to get a very minimal youtube experience. It's not really youttube then though so no logging in to your google account or stuff like that.
