From b505aca57a09e5daba3583d66f14e7252444c169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 07:42:34 -0600
Subject: Started linux room arch switch

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@@ -36,15 +36,17 @@ table {
                     <h2>Setup/software list</h2>
                     <ul>
                         <li>
-                            Distro: <a href="#fedora">fedora xfce</a>
+                            <a href="#distros">Distros:</a>
                             <ul>
-                                <li><a href="#setting_up">Setting up fedora</a></li>
-                                <li><a href="#nvidia">Nvidia drivers</a></li>
-                                <li><a href="#xfce_settings">xfce settings in fedora</a></li>
-                                <li><a href="#rofi">rofi in xfce</a></li>
-                                <li><a href="#useful_things">Useful things in fedora</a></li>
+                                <li><a href="#distro_guides">Guides</a></li>
+                                <li><a href="#distro_list">Favorite distros</a></li>
                             </ul>
                         </li>
+
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#de">Desktop environment</a>
+                        </li>
+                            
                         <li>
                             <a href="#gui">GUI apps</a>
                             <ul>
@@ -53,6 +55,7 @@ table {
                                 <li>Editor: <a href="#emacs">emacs</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>
@@ -109,177 +112,22 @@ table {
         <table border="1" width="60%">
             <tr>
                 <td>
-                    <h1 id="fedora">Fedora xfce</h1>
+                    <h2 id="distros">Distros</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 id="setting_up">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.
+                        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>
-                            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>
+                        <li><a href="distro_guides/arch.html">Arch (my daily driver)</a></li>
+                        <li><a href="distro_guides/fedora.html">Fedora (my old daily driver)</a></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>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-
-            <tr>
-                <td>
-                    <h2 id="nvidia">Nvidia drivers</h2>
-                    <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=&lt;refresh rate of your sync monitor&gt;<br/>
-                                __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=&lt;monitor to sync to&gt;
-                            </code>
-                            <br/><br/>
-                            Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off "Allow Flipping".
-                        </li>
-                    </ul>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-                <td>
-                    <h2 id="xfce_settings">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>
-                                    Bind <code>xfce4-popup-whiskermenu</code> to something like alt+f1 than use xcape to bind it to
-                                    super to get around the xfce super key bug. Add <code>xcape -e 'Super_L=Alt_L|F1'</code> as a
-                                    startup application or whatever dummy keybind you binded to whiskermenu. Sadly xfce cant bind
-                                    anything to super key without breaking other shortcuts that use super so we have to use xcape
-                                    in a painful hacky way.
-                                </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 id="rofi">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 id="useful_things">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>
+                    <h3 id="distro_list">Favorite distros</h3>
                 </td>
             </tr>
         </table>
@@ -418,6 +266,16 @@ table {
                     </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%">
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