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Setup/software list

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Why linux

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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.

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Distros

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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.

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GUI apps

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A lot of linux users dont like GUI apps. I think they are great - when they are done right.

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Claws mail

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I have used thunderbird in the past though like I said before - mozilla is evil as fuck. 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!

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Emacs

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Don't use emacs. Its stupido.
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- 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 the grip strength to crush a - human skull. Now my rsi is cured as long as I keep up the - exercises.
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- 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.
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Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.

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SpaceFM

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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.
- Update: After using it for a little bit I really dig it and never - want to go back.

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Encrypted partitions/the few things udevil doesnt support yet in - spaceFM

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SpaceFM doesnt support encrypted partitions by default but lucky - for us its very customizable. To get encrypted disks working I use - udisks2 and udiskie.

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  • Go to xfce session and startup than add the command - udiskie -s 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.
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  • In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and - add a new handler: - Whitelist: - crypto_LUKS
    - Mount: udiskie-mount %v
    - Unmount: udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT - %v)
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sftp

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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 -o follow_symlinks To - support symlinks. To add the option go to - Devices->Settings->Protocol Handlers->ssh and change the - mount option to:
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- [[ -n "$fm_url_user" ]] && fm_url_user="${fm_url_user}@"
- [[ -z "$fm_url_port" ]] && fm_url_port=22
- echo ">>> sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port - $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a"
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- # Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal - close
- sshtmp="$(mktemp --tmpdir spacefm-ssh-output-XXXXXXXX.tmp)" || exit - 1
- nohup sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port - $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a &> "$sshtmp"
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- [[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"
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- # Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and
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- # # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects - when the
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- # 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

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mpv

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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.

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Liferea

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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.
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- WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
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ePDFViewer

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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.

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Web browsers

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Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. - These are some of the better options out there.
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- For some resources on browsers check out spyware - watch dog and dig - deeper.
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- For addons stay away from the mozilla or google bullshit and instead - use something like the gnuzilla thingy. You can also find addons on - mybrowseraddon than manually install them or something - along those lines.
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- For a dark mode addon stay away from darkreader. 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 dark-mode.

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Icecat

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I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because mozilla is evil as fuck. If you don't know librewolf it - its the ungoogled-chromium of firefox. Than I switched from - librewolf to icecat.
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- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.

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Installing

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You can find some newer builds here. The offical - version can be found here.

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Hardening

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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 - pyllyukko user.js.

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Palemoon and Basilisk

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Palemoon - 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. Basilisk 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.
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- 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.

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Hardening

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Even though they are about as good as browsers get these days the - developers are still stupidos so you should follow this guide. 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.
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- To help hardened get yourself a palemoon user.js. 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.
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- echo "#! /usr/bin/sh\nTZ=UTC /usr/lib/palemoon/palemoon \$@" > - /usr/bin/palemoon
- chmod +x /usr/bin/palemoon
- Basilisk users can come up with their own hack instead of having - their hands held and gently walked through

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Ungoogled chromium

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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 - brave is fucking terrible. 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.
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- 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 these flags.
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librewolf

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Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened - browser setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla which kind of - sucks.

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Command line

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Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because - fuck you.
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- For a cool command line I use nerd fonts. My favorite is the hack - nerd font which can be installed with:
- wget - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.3.0/Hack.zip
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Alacritty

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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.

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zsh

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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.

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vim

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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 lite-xl 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 here) and instead go with a simple vimrc with - only a few plugins.
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Extras

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These are programs I at one point used, dont use much... that I - wanted to add.

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lite-xl

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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.
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- On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you - need to set the LITE_SCALE environment variable.

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vlc

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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.

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Evolution

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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 at least - hide most of that shit out of the way.

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