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| author | nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com> | 2025-05-23 07:43:34 -0600 |
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diff --git a/linux_room.html b/linux_room.html deleted file mode 100644 index 2f30667..0000000 --- a/linux_room.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,594 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> - <title>The linux room</title> - <style> - - body { - color: blue; - background-image: url('images/linux_background.png'); - } - - table { - color: black; - background-color: #bebebe; - margin-top: 10px; - margin-bottom: 10px; - margin-left: 10px; - margin-right: 10px; - border=1 - } - - </style> -</head> -<body> - <a href="index.html"><img src="images/back_home.png" alt= - "Back to home page"></a> - <center> - <img src="images/flying_tux.gif" alt="Tux the penguin flying"> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>Setup/software list</h2> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="#distros">Distros:</a> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="#distro_guides">Guides</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#distro_list">Cool distros</a> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#gui">GUI apps</a> - <ul> - <li>Mail client: <a href="#claws">claws</a> - </li> - <li>Editor: <a href="#emacs">emacs</a> - </li> - <li>File manager: <a href="#spacefm">SpaceFM</a> - </li> - <li>Media player: <a href="#mpv">mpv</a> - </li> - <li>Feed reader: <a href="#liferea">liferea</a> - </li> - <li>PDF viewer: <a href="#epdfviewer">ePDFViewer</a> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#browsers">Web browsers</a> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="#icecat">Icecat</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#xul">Palemoon and Basilisk</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#ungoogled">Ungoogled chromium</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#librewolf">Librewolf</a> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#commandline">Command line</a> - <ul> - <li>Terminal: <a href="#alacritty">alacritty</a> - </li> - <li>Shell: <a href="#zsh">zsh</a> - </li> - <li>Terminal based editor: <a href="#vim">vim</a> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#extras">Extras</a> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="#lite-xl">lite-xl</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#vlc">vlc</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="#evolution">Evolution</a> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>Why linux</h2> - <p>I have always liked being able to customize, mod, and poke inside - different things. Computers are machines for us to play around with - and use how we see fit yet the only thing the big tech companies - want to do it lock everything up and it disgusts me. Fuck google, - fuck microsoft, fuck apple, and fuck all the other evil tech - companies!!! Its time for the open source revolution and seize them - all and open source the entire world!!! Without linux or any other - unix life would be much much worse. Linux is my safe place from all - the shit in the world.</p><img src= - "images/windows_kills_kittens.jpg" alt="Window kills kittens" width= - "95%"> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="distros">Distros</h2> - <p>I will distro hop a bit though for the most part I like to stay - with the same distro and just change DE's or WM's. For the longest - time I just switched to a different fedora spin every so often. Now - I use arch because I got tired of fedora and couldnt find a distro I - liked so I switched to arch to make it feel the way I want.</p> - <h3 id="distro_guides">Guides</h3> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="distro_guides/arch.html">Arch (my daily driver)</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="distro_guides/xfce.html">Xfce DE</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="distro_guides/fedora.html">Fedora xfce (my old daily - driver)</a> - </li> - </ul> - <h3 id="distro_list">Cool distros</h3> - <p><i>Not including the guides</i></p> - <ul> - <li> - <a href="https://antixlinux.com" target="_blank">AntiX</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="https://mxlinux.org" target="_blank">MXLinux</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="https://salixos.org" target="_blank">SalixOS</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="https://www.adelielinux.org" target="_blank">Adelie</a> - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h1 id="gui">GUI apps</h1> - <p>A lot of linux users dont like GUI apps. I think they are great - <a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/design.xhtml" target= - "_blank">when they are done right</a>.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="claws">Claws mail</h2> - <p>I have used thunderbird in the past though like I said before - <a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml" target= - "_blank">mozilla is evil as fuck</a>. Through the power of actually - following the unix philosophy and not being full of javascript - bullshit claws is about the safest email client out there. Gone are - the days of just clicking a email being enough to fuck you over. - Anyways you likely noticed that claws just displays everything in - plain text. I like using the dillo plugin for a nicer view, and - guess what? Still no shitty javascript that can get you fucked!</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="emacs">Emacs</h2> - <p><b>Don't use emacs. Its stupido.</b><br> - <br> - That is and will always be true but lately as of writing this I been - bit by the emacs bug. Using emacs is so bad and so wrong but feels - so good to use. I defeated rsi by doing hand exercises for nearly a - year and a half as of writing this. I had to learn the hard way - being a guitarist and emacs user while taking CS classes and writing - code all the time wasnt a good idea. Now I play bass to but it - balances out because I switched over to IT and became too lazy to - write code most of the time. I lost my lite weight hand exercise - tools and instead of buying new ones I just started using the heavy - ones for hours at a time until I had <b>the grip strength to crush a - human skull</b>. Now my rsi is cured <i>as long as I keep up the - exercises</i>.<br> - <br> - I dont use doom emacs, spaceacs.. or any of that bullshit. Just good - old gnu emacs with a simple config and a hand full of plugins.<br> - Some of my favorite are:</p> - <ul> - <li>Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely - changing it by much.</li> - <li>Company with eglot: a easy way to add good auto-complete and - lsp support. It doesnt bloat the system up too much and it adds - much faster and better auto-complete then what any standard ide - has and it doesnt get in the way.</li> - <li>nyan-mode: this plugin will change your life. Emacs isnt even - usable without it. This plugin is the biggest reason I use emacs. - Take that vim users!</li> - </ul> - <p><b>Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.</b></p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="spacefm">SpaceFM</h2> - <p>For the longest time I just used thunar because its decent and - default in xfce though I decided to give spaceFM a try as of writing - this. I might got annoyed of it in a week and ditch it or end up - really liking it. These kinds of things tend to go either way for - me. I will either fucking hate it or wonder how I ever lived without - it.<br> - Update: After using it for a little bit I really dig it and never - want to go back.</p> - <h3>Encrypted partitions/the few things udevil doesnt support yet in - spaceFM</h3> - <p>SpaceFM doesnt support encrypted partitions by default but lucky - for us its very customizable. To get encrypted disks working I use - udisks2 and udiskie.</p> - <ul> - <li>Install udisks2 and udiskie.</li> - <li>Go to xfce session and startup than add the command - <code>udiskie -s</code> as a autostarted app. The -s option makes - udiskie show a tray icon and hide it when there arent any disks. - -t will show the tray all the time and by default udiskie will not - show a tray.</li> - <li>In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and - add a new handler: <img src="images/udiskie_in_spacefm.jpg" alt= - "udiskie device handler in spacefm"> Whitelist: - <code>crypto_LUKS</code><br> - Mount: <code>udiskie-mount %v</code><br> - Unmount: <code>udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT - %v)</code></li> - </ul> - <h3>sftp</h3> - <p>Spacefm uses sshfs for sftp support. Once you install it you will - be ready to rock. Though for my use case I need symlink support. - sshfs needs to have the option <code>-o follow_symlinks</code> To - support symlinks. To add the option go to - Devices->Settings->Protocol Handlers->ssh and change the - mount option to:<br> - <code>#!/bin/bash<br> - <br> - [[ -n "$fm_url_user" ]] && fm_url_user="${fm_url_user}@"<br> - [[ -z "$fm_url_port" ]] && fm_url_port=22<br> - echo ">>> sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port - $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a"<br> - echo<br> - # Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal - close<br> - sshtmp="$(mktemp --tmpdir spacefm-ssh-output-XXXXXXXX.tmp)" || exit - 1<br> - nohup sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port - $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a &> "$sshtmp"<br> - err=$?<br> - [[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"<br> - [[ $err -eq 0 ]] # set error status<br> - <br> - <br> - # Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and<br> - # uncheck Run In Terminal<br> - # # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects - when the<br> - # # terminal is closed<br> - # spacefm -s run-task cmd --terminal "echo 'Connecting to $fm_url'; - echo; sshfs -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path - %a; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo; echo '[ Finished ] Press Enter to - close'; else echo; echo 'Press Enter to close (closing this window - may unmount sshfs)'; fi; read" & sleep 1<br></code></p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="mpv">mpv</h2> - <p>I switched to mpv because vlc was acting weird with audio - sometimes when watching anime and nothing in this world is worse - then something getting in the way of anime time! Just like lite-xl - and neovim mpv uses lua for its config files and is really simple by - default. It also can play youtube videos or other online streams - just by giving it a url.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="liferea">Liferea</h2> - <p>Feed readers are one of those things I use on and off. A lot like - mail clients feed readers tend to be very bloated. Liferea is my - favorite but it has always had issues with nvidia drivers until I - found out a trick.<br> - <br> - If liferea has issues add this to your /etc/environment and - reboot<br> - <code>WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1</code><br> - <br> - Some cool tricks:</p> - <ul> - <li>Get <a href= - "https://github.com/shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension" target= - "_blank">this plugin</a> to find feeds easier. - </li> - <li>You can turn youtube channels into rss feeds with - <code>https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}</code><br> - - This can be done for all your subscriptions with <a href= - "scripts/youtube_subs_export.py" target="_blank">this script</a> - </li> - <li>You can drag and drop youtube urls from your feed reader into - mpv so you can keep up with your subscriptions without even - touching youtube's website.</li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="epdfviewer">ePDFViewer</h2> - <p>I wanted a pdf viewer that was light weight and simple. Being a - xfce user I wanted something that isnt tied to another DE and doesnt - uses a hell ton of dependencies.</p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h1 id="browsers">Web browsers</h1> - <p>Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. - These are some of the better options out there.<br> - <br> - For some resources on browsers check out <a href= - "https://spyware.neocities.org/articles" target="_blank">spyware - watch dog</a> and <a href= - "https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml" target="_blank">dig - deeper</a>.<br> - <br> - For addons stay away from the mozilla or google bullshit and instead - use something like <a href="https://gnuzilla.gnu.org" target= - "_blank">the gnuzilla thingy</a>. You can also find addons on - <a href="https://mybrowseraddon.com" target= - "_blank">mybrowseraddon</a> than manually install them or something - along those lines.<br> - <br> - For a dark mode addon <b>stay away from darkreader</b>. Dont know if - its spyware or not but when the browser starts up it makes a bunch - of requests which is something a dark mode plugin shouldnt do. - Instead use something like <a href= - "https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=786990" target= - "_blank">dark-mode</a>.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="icecat">Icecat</h2> - <p>I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because <a href= - "https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml" target= - "_blank">mozilla is evil as fuck</a>. If you don't know librewolf it - its the ungoogled-chromium of firefox. Than I switched from - librewolf to icecat.<br> - <br> - <s>The builtin plugins are decent. Librejs and its other contend - blocking plugins are way more annoying than something like umatrix - but I am giving them a fair chance knowing that umatrix might not - have much of a future even if its still quite functional still. I - still like to install ublock even with everything that comes - builtin.</s><br> - So I got annoyed of librejs and other builtin plugins in icecat. Now - I just disable them because umatrix and ublock can do way more, - except jshelter: It is a api spoofer which is different from the - others which are contend blockers. Its useful for when you have to - use javascript heavy websites but still want to prevent alot of - information from being leaked. I set ublock to disable javascript by - default and I set jshelter to strict mode by default.<br> - <br> - Fun little trick: If video playback/youtube frame breaks on a - website just throw it into mpv to stream it from there. Sometimes to - find the media you can hit ctrl+i to pull up page info and use the - media section or in some cases you might have to dig around in the - inspector.</p> - <h3>Installing</h3> - <p>You can find some newer builds <a href= - "https://icecatbrowser.org" target="_blank">here</a>. The offical - version can be found <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla" - target="_blank">here</a>.</p> - <h3>Hardening</h3> - <p>The magic of icecat is it makes zero requests to mozilla but its - not too hardened so you might wanta use a user.js. Check out - <a href="https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js" target= - "_blank">pyllyukko user.js</a>.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="xul">Palemoon and Basilisk</h2> - <p><a href="https://www.palemoon.org" target="_blank">Palemoon</a> - is a old firefox fork that uses a different rendering engine so it - can keep up with newer webstandards while stilling keeping the old - interface and support older plugins. <a href= - "https://www.basilisk-browser.org" target="_blank">Basilisk</a> use - to be developed by moonchild and was designed to be kind of like - palemoon but based off a bit newer version of firefox. The basilisk - team broke off and is now seprate from moonchild but still keeps in - close contact with them.<br> - <br> - What version you choose is really up to you and what interface you - like more. Both of them are going to struggle to use javascript - heavy websites but its ok its I prefer disabling javascript whenever - possible and using umatrix to only let in what the site needs to - function.</p> - <h3>Hardening</h3> - <p>Even though they are about as good as browsers get these days the - developers are still stupidos so you should <a href= - "https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/palemoon" target= - "_blank">follow this guide</a>. Its also best you disable webrtc - (only basilisk even supports webrtc out of the two) and webgl along - with other hardening because even though they are based off older - versions of firefox they still support the modern features that make - it easier for sites to fucking fingerprint you. Basilisk is the only - one that supports webrtc out of the two.<br> - <br> - To help hardened get yourself <a href= - "https://git.nixnet.services/Narsil/palemoon_user.js" target= - "_blank">a palemoon user.js</a>. It helps you stand out less by - hiding the fact you are using a weird old ass browser. Btw, for - whatever fucking reason this user.js seems to brick github issue - pages so just keep that in mind. Though if anything this just is - another reason why real git sites like gitea and codeberg are - better.<br> - <br> - You can timezone spoof by setting <code>TZ=UTC</code> before - launching:<br> - <code>sudo -s<br> - rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon<br> - echo "#! /usr/bin/sh\nTZ=UTC /usr/lib/palemoon/palemoon \$@" > - /usr/bin/palemoon<br> - chmod +x /usr/bin/palemoon</code><br> - Basilisk users can come up with their own hack instead of having - their hands held and gently walked through</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="ungoogled">Ungoogled chromium</h2> - <p>Ungoogled chromium is what the name says, chromium without the - google. I still prefer to avoid anything chromim but if you really - want to use a chromium based browser without all the spyware shit - you arent going to get any better than this. It hella beats brave - <b>brave is fucking terrible</b>. There is a addon that lets you - install addons from the chrome store and update them without having - to sign into google but I still think the best option is just to - manually install the addons to completely avoid google.<br> - <br> - Ungoogled chromium isnt hardened at all by default. Its designed to - be a drop in replacement for chrome that is user friendly and doesnt - break anything. We dont do that here, for heaven fucking shake at - least harden it a little and to do that you can use <a href= - "https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md" - target="_blank">these flags</a>.<br> - <br> - With manifest v2 on the way out the future of chromium based - browsers is fucked. Mozilla is also doing shitty things so we are - just in general fucked.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="librewolf">librewolf</h2> - <p>Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened - browser setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla which kind of - sucks.</p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h1 id="commandline">Command line</h1> - <p>Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because - <b>fuck you</b>.<br> - <br> - For a cool command line I use nerd fonts. My favorite is the hack - nerd font which can be installed with:<br> - <code>wget - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.3.0/Hack.zip<br> - - unzip Hack.zip -d Hack<br> - sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/<br></code><br> - More nerd fonts can be found <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com" - target="_blank">here</a>.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="alacritty">Alacritty</h2> - <p>I only started using it very recently because I been using kitty - for a long time. I switched to alacritty because ssh in kitty is - fucked up and I found out that alacritty now has a option for toml - files for the config. The yml files was one of the biggest things - keeping me away from alacritty.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="zsh">zsh</h2> - <p>zsh is pretty cool though I been playing with fish a bit and been - thinking of switching to that. zsh has lots of cool things like vi - keys (even though I use emacs) and is somewhat compatable with bash - to.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="vim">vim</h2> - <p>For a long time I used neovim. I started using neovim becaues I - wanted vim to act more like a ide and have fancy shit. For most - things I ended up using <s>lite-xl</s> emacs more because well... - emacs just make my autism happy. Neovim ended up just being used for - editing configs, quickly throwing together scripts, crazy vim wizard - edits... so I decided to just ditch neovim (you can find my old - config <a href="https://gitea.com/nathansmithsmith/nvim_config" - target="_blank">here</a>) and instead go with a simple vimrc with - only a few plugins.<br> - <br> - <b><i>How dare someone use both emacs and vim!</i></b> Shut your - fucking piehole stupido!</p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h1 id="extras">Extras</h1> - <p>These are programs I at one point used, dont use much... that I - wanted to add.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="lite-xl">lite-xl</h2> - <p>I started using lite-xl because I wanted a simple little easy to - config graphical text editor. lite-xl is just that. I no longer have - a need for it as I get into emacs again as of writing this but still - a great little editor.<br> - <br> - On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you - need to set the <code>LITE_SCALE</code> environment variable.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="vlc">vlc</h2> - <p>Yes, mpv is better. Yes, vlc sometimes has issues. But vlc is - still better than the default media player on most systems and has - its fair share of useful features. Even with mpv I still like to - have vlc installed just in case mpv breaks when I dont have internet - and I like its file converting features. The mobile version of vlc - kicks ass.</p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="evolution">Evolution</h2> - <p>Evolution is one of the better mail clients out there. If for - whatever reason you need to use gmail or some other locked down - shitty service evolution has you covered. By default it uses the - gnome style window decorators but unlike most gnome apps it lets you - use your desktop/WM decorators instead. Its not as bad as most mail - clients (looking at you thunderbird) and it lets you <i>at least</i> - hide most of that shit out of the way.</p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - </center> -</body> -</html> |