a majority of the tools i run are free and open source software. i like using small programs that are easy to use and modify.
i currently use chimera linux. it gives you the feeling of bsd on linux. i would love to switch to freebsd, however, there currently aren’t wifi 6e drivers for my thinkpad’s qualcomm qcnfa765 wifi chip and i depend heavily on wifi as a student.
i use dwl, dwm for wayland. here are other window managers i’ve tried:
| wm | type | config language |
|---|---|---|
| bspwm | hybrid |
shell |
| i3 | manual |
text |
| openbox | floating |
xml |
| evilwm | floating |
text |
| berry | floating |
shell |
| awesomewm | dynamic |
lua |
| dwm | dynamic |
c |
foot is good enough for wayland.
i use yash as my interactive shell. yash is posix compliant, extremely fast, and supports interactive features from zsh and fish like brace expansion, command line completion, and command line prediction.
i have tried many web browsers. at the moment, i am some what satisfied with firefox. it looks the nicest of all the browsers i have used and it is open source. my only complaint with it is that it is slow out of the box. firefox can be tweaked to increase performance though with customization of your user.js file. i tweak and harden firefox using betterfox.
i use vis. vis combines the modality of vim and the structural regular expressions of sam which allows you to do precise text manipulation. on unfamiliar unix systems, i use vi.
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cmus with cmusfm to scrobble my music to last fm and listenbrainz
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smaller prose is written in markdown. i typeset writing that writing would usually require a word processor in groff.
i use imv to view images and gimp to edit them.
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