Stuff

Intro

As I am writing this it’s only been a year since I learned about GNU/Linux. I didn’t know anything about programming neither back then, but hey, here I am :)

Software I use(d)

I remember reading those two pages from Luke Smith and zacoons this summer. I really liked them, so I am going to do the same (kind of the same).

Env

When I first learned about Linux, everyone told me to install Ubuntu, and so I did. I don’t remember my experience using it (as I only used Ubuntu for like 3 days). But I remember staying late at night installing Debian after learning that Ubuntu wasn’t the one and only Linux distro existing.

Learning about the others Desktop Environment was overwhelming as well, so I ran Debian headless (without a Desktop Environment) only to realize that a display server is vital if I want to make a normal use of my computer. So I installed and learned about Window Managers with i3.

Debian was nice and made me happy (for a few months or so). But I quickly learned about rolling release distros and so I installed Void Linux.

Void Linux is a really cool name. Void Linux is cool. xbps is cool. Everything about this distro is cool. Wayland is cool, Sway sure was. And making symlinks between /etc/sv and /var/services to enable daemons was fire. I really loved using Void Linux, I used it with GNOME and KDE plasma for months.

Unfortunately, an app I wanted to use needed systemd as a dependency so I had to leave the runit init system. As I already used Debian I wanted to try another distro so I installed Arch.

Arch is scary. I don’t have much to say about it. I use it with Hyprland.

I wanted to try suckless software but meh, I don’t want to leave Wayland and dwl doesn’t sound appealing to me.

Shell

I used to only know good ol’ bash. fish was kind of a deal breaker compared to the bourne again shell, but recently I’ve switched to zsh.

Editor

I started off with VSCode, but I just knew that it wasn’t the right one, I am now using Neovim, I really like the project, but I don’t feel like neovim is the right one neither. Maybe I will give Helix a shot.

Web browser

I use Firefox, with arkenfox.

Search Engine

I used DuckDuckGo before and then ran SearXNG on my personal server. But now I just choose one here.

Software I don’t want to use

Google

I started ungoogle-ing things this summer. Using another email provider, another email client, etc isn’t that bad. The most difficult part for me is by far android. I have a Xiaomi phone I bought years ago and I am running HyprOs 2.0 on it.

It’s currently impossible (or at least, very difficult) to unlock the bootloader of phones running this particuliar OS. So I am trapped, I can’t install a custom android ROM such as LineageOS or GrapheneOS because of the bootloader unlocking process.

The only workaround I found is using AUD with F-Droid.

People

Here’s a small list of people hosting their websites.
You should put tons of links to other people in your website.

Guides

These guides helped me a lot. There are good guides on Youtube too.