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diff --git a/programs.html b/programs.html index 81e885d..f8c7de2 100644 --- a/programs.html +++ b/programs.html @@ -19,25 +19,14 @@ </p> <dl> -<dt>Terminal</dt> -<dd>I use <a href="https://st.suckless.org/" target="_blank">st</a> (simple terminal) by <a target="_blank" href="https://suckless.org">suckless.org</a>, which is one of the most minimal, yet easily customizable terminal emulators out there. -I have my config read a <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal">pywal</a> cached file which gives st its colors. -<dd> - -<dt>Window Manager/Desktop Environment</dt> -<dd> -Primarily using <a href="https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm" target="_blank">bspwm</a>. What I like is that its config file is just plain ol' Bash! No complaints with it. If you want to know why my computer looks the way it does, this is what to check out. -Occassionally I get irrationally anxious about my memory footprint, so I switch to DWM (again, from the <a target="_blank" href="https://suckless.org">suckless.org</a> folks) only to switch back in a few weeks. -</dd> - -<dt>Fonts</dt> -<dd>My monospace font is typically Inconsolata, my serif font in Linux Libertine and my sans font is Linux Biolinum. I have ttf-emojione for emojis as well and noto-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk to give me non-European scripts.</dd> +<dt>Distribution</dt> +<dd>Manjaro (stable) though this is a bit of a moot point since there's been a lot of convergence among the popular distros recently especially since they all offer some dedicated channel for getting upto date software. The real day-to-day difference to workflow comes from the choice of desktop environment. I do like Debian, and Fedora as well.</dd> -<dt>Status bar</dt> -<dd><a href="https://github.com/polybar/polybar" target="_blank">polybar</a>, but I eventually come to realize that it's mostly useless, so it stays hidden.</dd> +<dt>Desktop Environment</dt> +<dd>I setted on Gnome w/ Wayland after many years of hopping. Gnome comes with all the tools you'd expect to see in a moderm desktop, and for the most part these tools are perfectly capable of doing the task they are meant to do. This means that the desktop enviroment just gets out of the way which I've really come to appreciate over time. Prior to Gnome, I've used DWM + Sxhkd, KDE Plasma. I'm glad DWM exists and people get use out of it, but for now I do not miss it - I'm sure that will eventually change too.</dd> <dt>Text editing and programming</dt> -<dd><a href="https://www.vim.org/" target="_blank">vim</a>. Less of a text editor and more of a lifestyle. No, I'm not going to ever switch to emacs. I use the pywal plugin for colors.</dd> +<dd><a href="https://www.vim.org/" target="_blank">vim</a>. Less of a text editor and more of a lifestyle. No, I'm not going to ever switch to emacs. I use the pywal plugin for colors. Technically, I use neovim.</dd> <dt>Web browser</dt> <dd>The web is bloat so they are all kinda terrible. I have tried, chrome, qutebrowser in the past. Right now I use <a href="https://vivaldi.com/" target="_blank">Vivaldi</a> with the add-on Vimium to get customizable vim-like keybindings. @@ -45,30 +34,6 @@ Occassionally I get irrationally anxious about my memory footprint, so I switch <dt>File manager</dt> <dd><a href="_blank" target="https://github.com/jarun/nnn">nnn</a>. Yes, I have used ranger.</dd> - -<dt>Mail client</dt> -<dd>mutt. Technically <a href="https://neomutt.org/" target="_blank">neo-mutt</a>. I keep all my mail offline with offlineIMAP, gpg keys to store passwords.</dd> - -<dt>Messaging</dt> -<dd><a href="https://tox.chat/index.html" target="_blank">tox</a> is what I recommend, but since it does not have an iOS client just yet, <a href="https://signal.org" target="_blank">Signal</a> will do. If you want to know why, see the section below about "Proprietary software".</dd> - -<dt>Music/audio player</dt> -<dd><a href="https://www.musicpd.org/" target="_blank">mpd</a> with <a href="https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/" target="_blank">ncmpcpp</a> for a library.</dd> - -<dt>Video player</dt> -<dd><a href="https://mpv.io/" target="_blank">mpv</a>. Don't bother with any other video player.</dd> - -<dt>Writing documents</dt> -<dd>I used to write documents in <a href="https://www.latex-project.org/" target="_blank">LaTeX</a> and compile them into pdf documents. Recently I've been experimenting with groff/troff to much success and recommend it as a much more minimal and elegant typesetting system, scarcely lacking anything you might need, although lacking documentation, so it'll probably be a jungle at first.</dd> - -<dt>PDF viewer</dt> -<dd><a href="https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/" target="_blank">zathura</a>. I used mupdf, which is good too.</dd> - -<dt>Image Viewer</dt> -<dd><a href="https://github.com/muennich/sxiv" target="_blank">sxiv</a> (from suckless). Handles images, animated gifs, has additional thumbnail and slideshow modes and allows you to run custom scripts and read/write to standard input/output. Okay. This is epic.</dd> - -<dt>Image modification</dt> -<dd><a href="https://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">gimp</a> for big things, but imagemagick commands for most little modifications, filter changes, trims, etc.</dd> </dl> <h2>Where can I find good software options?</h2> @@ -87,10 +52,8 @@ Occassionally I get irrationally anxious about my memory footprint, so I switch <dl> <dt>Laptop</dt> -<dd>The main laptop I use is a Thinkpad T420s, released in 2011. Old ThinkPads are designed for long term corporate use, and last forever and are made to be easy to repair and improve. They have many simple perks, like their uniquely tactile keyboards, their trackpoints and their ThinkLight (a more commonsense solution to lighting your keyboard at night). Newer ThinkPads are not as good, lacking the classical keyboards and generally being more Mac-like (unrepairable, breakable, and generally bad for an enormous price). +<dd>The main laptop I use is the Framework laptop <a target="_blank" href="https://frame.work/"></a>. I'm a huge fan of the whole concept coming from a few generations of ThinkPads. It remains to be seen if they can hold true to their promise for providing upgradable motherboards, but from everything I've gotten so far, I'm impressed. </dd> -<dt>Hard drives</dt> -<dd> SSDs are the only thing I recommend using a good bit of money on in your computer build. They make your computer hugely snappier and apparently use less power.</dd> </dl> <h2>What I don't use</h2> |