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diff --git a/linuxRoom.html b/linuxRoom.html deleted file mode 100644 index a46df77..0000000 --- a/linuxRoom.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,427 +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> - <center> - <img src="images/flying_tux.gif" alt="Tux the penguin flying"/> - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>My current setup</h2> - <ul> - <li>Distro: <a href="#fedora">fedora xfce</a></li> - <li>Web browser: <a href="#icecat">icecat</a></li> - <li>Mail client: <a href="#claws">claws</a></li> - <li>Editor: <a href="#lite-xl">lite-xl</a></li> - <li>Media player: <a href="#mpv">mpv</a></li> - <li>Feed reader: <a href="#liferea">liferea</a></li> - <li>Terminal: <a href="#alacritty">alacritty</a></li> - <li>Shell: <a href="#zsh">zsh</a></li> - <li>Terminal based editor: <a href="#neovim">neovim</a></li> - <li><a href="#emacs">emacs</a></li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <h2><a href="https://codeberg.org/nathansmith/dotfiles" target="_blank">Dotfiles</a></h2> - <p>This is a repo for my dotfiles and its kind of fucked up. - Some configs have there own repos because I didn't think ahead lmao. - </p> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <h2><a href="index.html">Back to main page</a></h2> - </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="fedora">Fedora xfce</h2> - <p> - Fedora been my go to for quite a while though I sometimes switch desktops lmao. - I have tried the gnome version but it doesn't really fit me so most - of the time I have used the kde spin though recently kde just haven't - been feeling the same. It has been feeling buggy and have been fighting - with nvidia drivers. After running xfce on my second computer for a while - I grew to really like it and started using it on my main and it have been - running much better then kde. - </p> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>Setting up fedora</h2> - <p> - Fedora has a little extra setup you wouldn't see in something like linux mint though - it isn't that bad. - </p> - <h3>Packages</h3> - <p> - You can speed up dnf by adding these to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf<br> - <code> - max_parallel_downloads=20<br/> - fastestmirror=True - </code> - <br/><br/> - The default repos have lots of stuff but you might want an app that isn't in it like steam. - I know the gnome version has a enable 3rd party repos button that does everything I listed here - but I am on the xfce version and also had to do this on the kde verison. - </p> - <ul> - <li> - Setup rpm fusion to get more packages in dnf with the - <a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/rpmfusion-setup/" target="_blank">resources here</a> - </li> - <li> - Install flatpak if not already there using "sudo dnf install flatpak" then add - <a href="https://flathub.org/setup/Fedora" target="_blank">flathub</a> - to get some cool apps! - </li> - </ul> - - <h3>Multimedia</h3> - <p> - By default fedora doesn't have many codecs and you need to install them yourself. - Without them many media files will not work and lots of youtube videos will not be able to play. - The fedora docs use to show how to install them but they removed it from their page - and instead shows a new version which installs some stuff but not everything. - I do both of them to make sure I get all the codecs I need. - </p> - <ul> - <li>Update your system with <code>sudo dnf upgrade</code></li> - <li>Install the new packages with <code>sudo dnf group install multimedia</code></li> - <li> - Install the old ones with these three commands in a row: - <ul> - <li><code>sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel</code></li> - <li><code>sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel</code></li> - <li><code>sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing</code></li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> - - <h3>Nvidia drivers</h3> - <p> - Nvidia isn't the best on linux and I like AMD much more though I am stuck with nvidia for now. - For xfce there are some extra settings to enable it but it works great once that is done. - You will need rpm fusion first before you can install the drivers. - </p> - <ul> - <li> - Follow the fedora docs on nvidia - <a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/set-nvidia-as-primary-gpu-on-optimus-based-laptops" target="_blank">here</a> - </li> - <li> - Also look at the rpmfusion docs on nvidia - <a href="https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA" target="_blank">here</a> - </li> - <li> - Follow the archwiki on nvidia in lightdm - <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#LightDM" target="_blank">here</a>. - </li> - <li> - For multi monitor refresh rate issues add these to your /etc/environment<br/> - <code> - CLUTTER_DEFAULT_FPS=<refresh rate of your sync monitor><br/> - __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=<monitor to sync to> - </code> - <br/><br/> - Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off "Allow Flipping". - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>xfce settings in fedora</h2> - <p> - By default xfce is a very plain desktop and looks kind of old and shitty - (like this website), but it can look and feel great with some work! - </p> - <ul> - <li>Install nicer icons with <code>sudo dnf install papirus-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme-dark</code> then set them as your icon theme</li> - <li> - Install a better theme. Some good ones are: - <ul> - <li><a href="https://drasite.com/flat-remix-gtk" target="_blank">flat-remix</a></li> - <li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1681313/" target="_blank">gruvbox</a></lib> - <li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/2098041" target="_blank">DoorMaker</a></li> - <li><a href="https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1394325" target="_blank">BaZik</a></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - The default menu is alright but I like whisker menu more. - <ul> - <li>Install it with <code>sudo dnf install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin</code></li> - <li>Go into the panel settings to remove the old one and change it to whisker menu.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - Enable clipman as one of the startup apps for a kde like clipboard. - </li> - <li> - Make some nicer keybinds: - <ul> - <li>I like to bind the <code>xfce4-popup-whiskermenu</code> command to shift-super. - You can't bind things to just super in xfce. It will break other shortcuts.</li> - <li>Bind "super+v" to <code>xfce4-clipman-history</code> to make it feel more like the kde clipboard</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li> - Make new windows show up at the mouse by going into the "Window ManagerTweaks" "Placement" tab, - turning the minimum size all the way up and chaning the place windows position to under the mouse pointer. - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>Rofi in xfce</h2> - The default xfce appfinder been causing me issues lately so I decided to switch to rofi. - <br/><br/> - To make rofi work with my workflow I like to add some binds for it: - <ul> - <li>Bind <code>rofi -show drun -icon-theme "Papirus-Dark" -show-icons</code> to super+d</li> - <li>Bind <code>rofi -show run</code> to super+r</li> - </ul> - There is much more I could use rofi for but this is all I need. - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <h2>Useful things in fedora</h2> - Fedora doesn't have "update-grub" so instead you have to use these:<br/> - <code> - sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg<br/> - sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg - </code> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <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/> - 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. - </p> - <h3>Settings</h3> - <p> - The clipboard doesn't work in icecat by default so go into <code>about:config</code> and change - <code>dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled</code> to true. - </p> - <h3>Search engines</h3> - <p> - The best search engine is <a href="https://searx.space" target="_blank">searx</a>. - Finding instances can be annoying because a lot of time the engine you want to use - gets blocked. - </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>. - I have some gmail accounts and haven't gotten them to work in claws yet though I am working on - moving everything away from gmail because fuck google!! Though my other accounts work in it just fine. - Its a quite basic mail client so you often have to play around with different things to get accounts to work. - Also tried evolution but it was too bloated but not nearly as bad as thunderbird. - </p> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="lite-xl">lite-xl</h2> - <p> - I started using lite-xl because I wanted a editor that was simple but very configurable. - Neovim and kate were my two favorite editors and lite-xl is kind of a mix of the two. - It uses lua for its config files and has some really cool things like: a project structure - to make it fit better for coding, support for all the major languages and lsp plugins. - </p> - - <h3>lite-xl config</h3> - <p> - I have my config on a repo here <a href="https://codeberg.org/nathansmith/liteLXConfig" target="_blank">here</a>. - On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you need to set the <code>LITE_SCALE</code> environment variable. - <br/><br/> - - My config has buttons for quickly opening a terminal and file explore in the current directory. - It doesn't know what your defaults are for those apps so to set them just change the varibles - in the "init.lua" file. - </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.<br/><br/> - - The only thing I did to config mine was install plugins for a nicer interface - and mpris yet - <a href="https://codeberg.org/nathansmith/mpvconfig" target="_blank">it has its own repo</a> when it - could just be in the dotfiles repo. Like I said, my dotfiles are kind of fucked up. - </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> - </table> - - <table border="1" width="60%"> - <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.<br/><br/> - You can find my config on the - <a href="https://codeberg.org/nathansmith/dotfiles/src/branch/main/.config/alacritty" target="_blank">dotfiles repo</a>. - </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 and is somewhat compatable with bash to.<br/><br/> - - For my zsh config to work you need powerline and nerd fonts which can be installed with: - </p> - <ul> - <li><code>sudo dnf install powerline</code></li> - <li> - Download a nerd font from the <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads" target="_blank">nerd fonts site</a>. - Personal I use hack font and configured neovim with it. - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="neovim">Neovim</h2> - <p> - I been using neovim for quite a while and have added a lot to my config. Onetime in the middle - of the night I thought my neovim config was trying to kill me because of the pain I caused it - by doing a bad job programming it. It looked like a flat snake head that was tired and pissed off.<br/> - I don't use neovim for programming things much anymore and prefer graphical editors - for that now but I still use neovim sometimes.<br/><br/> - - You can find my neovim config (the one that tried to kill me) - <a href="https://gitea.com/nathansmithsmith/nvim_config" target="_blank">here</a>. - </p> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <h2 id="emacs">Emacs</h2> - <p> - Don't use emacs. Its stupido. - </p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - </center> -</body> -</html> |