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<h2>Setup/software list</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#distros">Distros:</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#distro_guides">Guides</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#distro_list">Cool distros</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#gui">GUI apps</a>
<ul>
<li>Mail client: <a href="#claws">claws</a>
</li>
<li>Editor: <a href="#emacs">emacs</a>
</li>
<li>File manager: <a href="#spacefm">SpaceFM</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>
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<li>
<a href="#browsers">Web browsers</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#icecat">Icecat</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#xul">Palemoon and Basilisk</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#ungoogled">Ungoogled chromium</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#librewolf">Librewolf</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#commandline">Command line</a>
<ul>
<li>Terminal: <a href="#alacritty">alacritty</a>
</li>
<li>Shell: <a href="#zsh">zsh</a>
</li>
<li>Terminal based editor: <a href="#vim">vim</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#extras">Extras</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#lite-xl">lite-xl</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#vlc">vlc</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#evolution">Evolution</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<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%" />
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<h2 id="distros">Distros</h2>
<p>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>
<a href="distro_guides/arch.html">Arch (my daily driver)</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="distro_guides/xfce.html">Xfce DE</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="distro_guides/fedora.html">Fedora xfce (my old daily
driver)</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="distro_list">Cool distros</h3>
<p><i>Not including the guides</i></p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://antixlinux.com" target="_blank">AntiX</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://mxlinux.org" target="_blank">MXLinux</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://salixos.org" target="_blank">SalixOS</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.adelielinux.org" target="_blank">Adelie</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<td>
<h1 id="gui">GUI apps</h1>
<p>A lot of linux users dont like GUI apps. I think they are great
<a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/design.xhtml" target=
"_blank">when they are done right</a>.</p>
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<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>. 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!</p>
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<tr>
<td>
<h2 id="emacs">Emacs</h2>
<p><b>Don't use emacs. Its stupido.</b><br />
<br />
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 <b>the grip strength to crush a
human skull</b>. Now my rsi is cured <i>as long as I keep up the
exercises</i>.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Some of my favorite are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely
changing it by much.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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!</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.</b></p>
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<td>
<h2 id="spacefm">SpaceFM</h2>
<p>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.<br />
Update: After using it for a little bit I really dig it and never
want to go back.</p>
<h3>Encrypted partitions/the few things udevil doesnt support yet in
spaceFM</h3>
<p>SpaceFM doesnt support encrypted partitions by default but lucky
for us its very customizable. To get encrypted disks working I use
udisks2 and udiskie.</p>
<ul>
<li>Install udisks2 and udiskie.</li>
<li>Go to xfce session and startup than add the command
<code>udiskie -s</code> 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.</li>
<li>In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and
add a new handler: <img src="images/udiskie_in_spacefm.jpg" alt=
"udiskie device handler in spacefm" /> Whitelist:
<code>crypto_LUKS</code><br />
Mount: <code>udiskie-mount %v</code><br />
Unmount: <code>udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT
%v)</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>sftp</h3>
<p>Spacefm uses sshfs for sftp support. Once you install it you will
be ready to rock. Though for my use case I need symlink support.
sshfs needs to have the option <code>-o follow_symlinks</code> To
support symlinks. To add the option go to
Devices->Settings->Protocol Handlers->ssh and change the
mount option to:<br />
<code>#!/bin/bash<br />
<br />
[[ -n "$fm_url_user" ]] &&
fm_url_user="${fm_url_user}@"<br />
[[ -z "$fm_url_port" ]] && fm_url_port=22<br />
echo ">>> sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port
$fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a"<br />
echo<br />
# Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal
close<br />
sshtmp="$(mktemp --tmpdir spacefm-ssh-output-XXXXXXXX.tmp)" || exit
1<br />
nohup sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port
$fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a &> "$sshtmp"<br />
err=$?<br />
[[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"<br />
[[ $err -eq 0 ]] # set error status<br />
<br />
<br />
# Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and<br />
# uncheck Run In Terminal<br />
# # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects
when the<br />
# # terminal is closed<br />
# 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<br /></code></p>
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</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.</p>
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</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>
<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%">
<tr>
<td>
<h1 id="browsers">Web browsers</h1>
<p>Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen.
These are some of the better options out there.<br />
<br />
For some resources on browsers check out <a href=
"https://spyware.neocities.org/articles" target="_blank">spyware
watch dog</a> and <a href=
"https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml" target="_blank">dig
deeper</a>.<br />
<br />
For addons stay away from the mozilla or google bullshit and instead
use something like <a href="https://gnuzilla.gnu.org" target=
"_blank">the gnuzilla thingy</a>. You can also find addons on
<a href="https://mybrowseraddon.com" target=
"_blank">mybrowseraddon</a> than manually install them or something
along those lines.<br />
<br />
For a dark mode addon <b>stay away from darkreader</b>. 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 <a href=
"https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=786990" target=
"_blank">dark-mode</a>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<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 />
<s>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.</s><br />
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.<br />
<br />
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.</p>
<h3>Installing</h3>
<p>You can find some newer builds <a href=
"https://icecatbrowser.org" target="_blank">here</a>. The offical
version can be found <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla"
target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Hardening</h3>
<p>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
<a href="https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js" target=
"_blank">pyllyukko user.js</a>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2 id="xul">Palemoon and Basilisk</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.palemoon.org" target="_blank">Palemoon</a>
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. <a href=
"https://www.basilisk-browser.org" target="_blank">Basilisk</a> 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.<br />
<br />
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.</p>
<h3>Hardening</h3>
<p>Even though they are about as good as browsers get these days the
developers are still stupidos so you should <a href=
"https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/palemoon" target=
"_blank">follow this guide</a>. 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.<br />
<br />
To help hardened get yourself <a href=
"https://git.nixnet.services/Narsil/palemoon_user.js" target=
"_blank">a palemoon user.js</a>. 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.<br />
<br />
You can timezone spoof by setting <code>TZ=UTC</code> before
launching:<br />
<code>sudo -s<br />
rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon<br />
echo "#! /usr/bin/sh\nTZ=UTC /usr/lib/palemoon/palemoon \$@" >
/usr/bin/palemoon<br />
chmod +x /usr/bin/palemoon</code><br />
Basilisk users can come up with their own hack instead of having
their hands held and gently walked through</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2 id="ungoogled">Ungoogled chromium</h2>
<p>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
<b>brave is fucking terrible</b>. 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.<br />
<br />
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 <a href=
"https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md"
target="_blank">these flags</a>.<br />
<br />
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.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2 id="librewolf">librewolf</h2>
<p>Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened
browser setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla which kind of
sucks.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="1" width="60%">
<tr>
<td>
<h1 id="commandline">Command line</h1>
<p>Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because
<b>fuck you</b>.<br />
<br />
For a cool command line I use nerd fonts. My favorite is the hack
nerd font which can be installed with:<br />
<code>wget
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.3.0/Hack.zip<br />
unzip Hack.zip -d Hack<br />
sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/<br /></code><br />
More nerd fonts can be found <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com"
target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<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.</p>
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<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 (even though I use emacs) and is somewhat compatable with bash
to.</p>
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<h2 id="vim">vim</h2>
<p>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 <s>lite-xl</s> 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 <a href="https://gitea.com/nathansmithsmith/nvim_config"
target="_blank">here</a>) and instead go with a simple vimrc with
only a few plugins.<br />
<br />
<b><i>How dare someone use both emacs and vim!</i></b> Shut your
fucking piehole stupido!</p>
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<h1 id="extras">Extras</h1>
<p>These are programs I at one point used, dont use much... that I
wanted to add.</p>
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<h2 id="lite-xl">lite-xl</h2>
<p>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.<br />
<br />
On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you
need to set the <code>LITE_SCALE</code> environment variable.</p>
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<h2 id="vlc">vlc</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2 id="evolution">Evolution</h2>
<p>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 <i>at least</i>
hide most of that shit out of the way.</p>
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