- my daily driver is a framework 13. it’s one of the most rewarding hardware purchases i’ve ever made.
- framework makes modular laptops that are spectacularly well-designed. every major component is user-serviceable with a single screwdriver, and there are detailed guides for every conceivable operation you might attempt. want stiffer hinges for your screen? blank keycaps to flex on your coworkers? a new mainboard with a faster cpu? you can do it all at home, cheaply. no more genius bars; no more seasonal e-waste; no more indenture to pretty blackboxes that are made to break.
- i run arch linux (btw), and have been doing so almost exclusively since 2020-ish. this brings great joy, and occasional torment.
- on rare occasions when i need to use more fastidious software (like the adobe creative suite), it’s straightforward to fire up a windows VM.
- my window manager is sway, which is wayland-based and i3-like. it’s simple, pleasant, and well-maintained.
- people tell me that there are principled reasons why wayland is, or soon will be, far superior to x11. i don’t really understand any of them, but they’re probably right.
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i use rofi as my app launcher, waybar for my menu bar, thunar for file management, and alacritty as my terminal emulator.
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my login shell is zsh, made lovelier by oh my zsh.
- my text editor of choice is vim, and my preferred terminal multiplexer is tmux.
- i wasn’t really tmux-pilled until i watched this video; now it’s hard to work remotely without it.
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almost everything is themed with color palettes from catppuccin.
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i use obsidian for linked notes. i like that it’s free and yet all my files are stored locally in markdown.
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for managing scientific papers and citations, it can only be zotero.
- i additionally have a rather beefy desktop at home — also arch, btw — which i built in the early days of the covid-19 pandemic and primarily use for file storage and gaming.
- contrary to popular belief, gaming on linux is a remarkably pleasant experience these days, thanks largely to proton (valve’s compatibility layer for steam games) and excellent community efforts like protondb.
- caveat lector: this is still virtually guaranteed to be comparatively more fraught than gaming on windows, at least so long as only ~1% of steam users are running linux (i.e. until the heat death of the universe). your mileage will vary a lot depending on your willingness to tinker, and your specific taste in games.