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"Consider this situation: You’re environmentalist who doesn’t want to change their hardware every 2/3/5/10 or even more years" -- Suckless users are not environmentalists who do not want to change their hardware. The rule n.1, and probably rule n.2 too, in the Suckless Club is "We are elitists and we do not care about n00bz! Learn some C, make, and shell scripting. Grow up!!" -- or something like that, and that's not a bad thing. There are plenty solutions for them around. I've been using dwm+st+dmenu for almost 18 months, no major hassle. Never used surf though. Are there alternatives? Sure there are. More reliable? Under what metrics? Again, Suckless tools serve a very singular (odd?) set of like-minded people that are far from average Linux user. And that's OK.