General Computing

General GNU/Linux Setup

My setup of programs is listed below.

I use Arch Linux. I like the bleeding edge nature of updating, and easy configuration. It definitely has a larger learning curve than something like Ubuntu, but once you learn the in's and out's, everything becomes very easy.
I also dabble with FreeBSD from time to time, though I'm no expert and there's a lot I don't know. I'm planning on making a switch to OpenBSD, but until then I'll stay with FreeBSD. If you haven't tried the Ports system of package management, it is an absolute necessity that you give it a run.

Vim is my text editor of choice. Like Arch, it has a learning curve but makes things faster overall. I particularly like the ability to search for and replace text, as this makes changing parts of the HTML on this website very easy.

I use mpv. 'It just werks' and I don't need anything more for the rare movie or music album.

I use i3-wm rather than a full DE. It doesn't take up my system's resources, is easy to configure, and has good documentation. There are certainly good alternatives, herbstluftwm for example, but I don't see any point in rewriting all of my configurations just to have a marginal difference in performance or functionality.

I use st. Configure once, apply scrollback.diff, never worry about it again. The use case of a terminal is to access the shell, so if it does that, then I don't care about any other feature. The most substantial reason I have for using st is that it's super small (~2000 lines of code) and it 'just werks.'

I use ungoogled-chromium. It's just like normal Chromium or Chrome but without any Google integration, making it more secure. I use Chromium specifically because I like the functionality and UI. Simple as that.

I use weechat. It just werks. On some computers I have irssi set up, but that's generally not my go-to.

I use Cormorant Garamond for documents, and switch between Hack and Source Code Pro as my terminal font. I like the vintage yet clean style of Cormorant Garamond, and the clean readability of Source Code Pro and Hack.