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+ Tux the penguin flying + + + + +
+

Setup/software list

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+ + + + +
+

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 +
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+

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

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

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}
    + + 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.

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

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!

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+

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