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Setup/software list

- -
- - - - - -
-

Why linux

-

- 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. -

- Window kills kittens -
- - - - - -
-

Distros

-

- 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. -

- -

Guides

- - -

Cool distros

-

- Not including the guides -

- -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-

GUI apps

-

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

-
-

Claws mail

-

- 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! -

-
-

Emacs

-

- Don't use emacs. Its stupido. -

- 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. -

- 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. -
- Some of my favorite are: -

-
    -
  • Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely changing it by much.
    • -
  • 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.
    • -
  • 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!
    • -
-

- Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site. -

-
-

SpaceFM

-

- 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. -

- -

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

-

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

-
    -
  • Install udisks2 and udiskie.
    • -
  • 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.
    • -
  • In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and add a new handler: - udiskie device handler in spacefm - Whitelist: crypto_LUKS
    - Mount: udiskie-mount %v
    - Unmount: udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT %v) -
- -

sftp

-

- 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:
- - #!/bin/bash -

- [[ -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:$fm_url_path %a"
- echo
- # Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal close
- sshtmp="$(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"
- err=$?
- [[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"
- [[ $err -eq 0 ]] # set error status
-

- # Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and
- # uncheck Run In Terminal
- # # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects when the
- # # terminal is closed
- # 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
- -

-
-

mpv

-

- 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. -

-
-

Liferea

-

- 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.

- If liferea has issues add this to your /etc/environment and reboot
- WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 - -

- Some cool tricks: -

-
    -
  • - Get - this plugin to find feeds easier. -
    • -
  • - You can turn youtube channels into rss feeds with - https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}
    - This can be done for all your subscriptions with - - this script -
    • -
  • - 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. -
    • -
-
-

ePDFViewer

-

- 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. -

-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-

Web browsers

-

- Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. - These are some of the better options out there. -

- For some resources on browsers check out - spyware watch dog and dig deeper. -

- 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. -

- 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. -

-
-

Icecat

-

- 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. -

- 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. -

- 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. -

- -

Installing

-

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

- -

Hardening

-

- 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. -

-
-

Palemoon and Basilisk

-

- 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. -

- 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. -

- -

Hardening

-

- 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. -

- 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. -

- You can timezone spoof by setting TZ=UTC before launching: -
- - sudo -s
- rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon
- 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 -

-
-

Ungoogled chromium

-

- 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. -

- 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. -

- 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. -

-
-

librewolf

-

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

-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-

Command line

-

- Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because fuck you. -

- 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
- unzip Hack.zip -d Hack
- sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/
- -
- More nerd fonts can be found here. -

-
-

Alacritty

-

- 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. -

-
-

zsh

-

- 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. -

-
-

vim

-

- 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. -

- How dare someone use both emacs and vim! Shut your fucking piehole stupido! -

-
- - - - - - - - - + + +
+ Tux the penguin flying +
-

Extras

-

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

-
-

lite-xl

-

- 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. -

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

-
+ + + +
+

Setup/software list

+ +
+ + + + +
+

Why linux

+

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.

Window kills kittens +
+ + + + +
+

Distros

+

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.

+

Guides

+ +

Cool distros

+

Not including the guides

+ +
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - - + This can be done for all your subscriptions with this script + +
  • 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.
    • + + + + + + +
    +

    GUI apps

    +

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

    +
    +

    Claws mail

    +

    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!

    +
    +

    Emacs

    +

    Don't use emacs. Its stupido.
    +
    + 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.
    +
    + 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.
    + Some of my favorite are:

    +
      +
    • Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely + changing it by much.
      • +
    • 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.
      • +
    • 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!
      • +
    +

    Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.

    +
    +

    SpaceFM

    +

    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.

    +

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

    +

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

    +
      +
    • Install udisks2 and udiskie.
      • +
    • 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.
      • +
    • 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)
      • +
    +

    sftp

    +

    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:
    + #!/bin/bash
    +
    + [[ -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:$fm_url_path %a"
    + echo
    + # Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal + close
    + sshtmp="$(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"
    + err=$?
    + [[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"
    + [[ $err -eq 0 ]] # set error status
    +
    +
    + # Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and
    + # uncheck Run In Terminal
    + # # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects + when the
    + # # terminal is closed
    + # 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

    +
    +

    mpv

    +

    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.

    +
    +

    Liferea

    +

    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.
    +
    + If liferea has issues add this to your /etc/environment and + reboot
    + WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
    +
    + Some cool tricks:

    +
      +
    • Get this plugin to find feeds easier. +
      • +
    • You can turn youtube channels into rss feeds with + https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}
      -
    -

    vlc

    -

    - 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. -

    -
    +

    ePDFViewer

    +

    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.

    +
    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    +

    Web browsers

    +

    Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. + These are some of the better options out there.
    +
    + For some resources on browsers check out spyware + watch dog and dig + deeper.
    +
    + 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.
    +
    + 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.

    +
    +

    Icecat

    +

    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.
    +
    + 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.
    +
    + 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.

    +

    Installing

    +

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

    +

    Hardening

    +

    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.

    +
    +

    Palemoon and Basilisk

    +

    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.
    +
    + 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.

    +

    Hardening

    +

    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.
    +
    + 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.
    +
    + You can timezone spoof by setting TZ=UTC before + launching:
    + sudo -s
    + rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon
    + 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

    +
    +

    Ungoogled chromium

    +

    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.
    +
    + 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.
    +
    + 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.

    +
    +

    librewolf

    +

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

    +
    + + + - - -
    +

    Command line

    +

    Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because + fuck you.
    +
    + 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
    -

    -

    Evolution

    -

    - 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. -

    -
    -
    + unzip Hack.zip -d Hack
    + sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/

    + More nerd fonts can be found here.

    + + + + +

    Alacritty

    +

    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.

    + + + + +

    zsh

    +

    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.

    + + + + +

    vim

    +

    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.
    +
    + How dare someone use both emacs and vim! Shut your + fucking piehole stupido!

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    +

    Extras

    +

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

    +
    +

    lite-xl

    +

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

    +
    +

    vlc

    +

    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.

    +
    +

    Evolution

    +

    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.

    +
    + -- cgit v1.2.3