Tag: Arch Linux
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chadwm: A Simple, Easy Way to Get Started with dwm
I already wrote about it recently and in passing, but my openSUSE laptop became a new project for me to tinker over the past week. I loved getting Hyprland to run on the system just as it would run on my Arch desktop. Everything was looking great. But unfortunately, Hyprland only looked great on this…
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I’m Done with Vim/Nvim Distros
This won’t be too long of a post, but it does somewhat connect with my most recent post about Dank Material Shell. After installing it, I enjoyed the rest of my setup as normal. This felt like the end-all addition to my Hyprland setup. However, I had a different, long-dormant issue that reared its ugly…
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Dank Material Shell Makes Hyprland Feel Complete
I’ll be frank about something. In general, I’ve had less ideas lately about what to write regarding Linux use in general. I mean, sure, I could always discuss how Microsoft misread the room (understatement of the year, and it’s only January) and started driving Linux Mint adoption, but I’m surely not the first person to…
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Cinnamon Desktop is Cozy Sometimes
Despite my history using Linux over the past few years, and despite how I have to use a Mac at work, I typically default to not only Arch Linux, but Hyprland with my setup. In short, I had a taste of tiling windows a few years ago starting with Awesome WM. After a few years…
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Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection
I hinted at the possibility a good while back, but I’ve been rethinking how I enjoy my music over the past few months, and that’s also despite how I said this a good while back now. Why go through all this trouble [with TIDAL, Spotify, and others] when you could just host the music yourself…
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The Usefulness (and Restrictions) of ChatGPT
While I have joked about it frequently in previous posts, I do casually use AI like many people from time to time. On more than one occasion, I’ll open up ChatGPT and type something in, especially if I feel like it’s a little too specific to search for a search engine alone. I know it’s…
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Why Arco Linux Mattered to Me, a Vanilla Arch User
Readers who’ve been here for a while know I have been daily driving Arch Linux on my primary desktop for five years now, despite what I said about deleting it in a recent post. While I did dabble in Manjaro a few times in the years before then, I went all-in on vanilla Arch. Of…
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Switching to Windows Content (And Other Major Changes)
I was hanging out after work the other day with my three best friends: Mike, Twister, and Guinn. We were sharing an entirely modest amount of drinks at our local pub that afternoon. It was only after we sipped some of our lemonade that Mike brought up the idea of himself starting a blog. Twister,…
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An Arch User Learns to Love Snaps
Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love snapd!” I never thought I’d write about this now, but as a longtime Linux user, I got by using packages in my distro’s default repositories, the AUR, Flatpaks, and the occasional AppImage here or there. When anyone so much as mentioned using Canonical’s Snaps, I usually…
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Another Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo!
Costumes are coming off, seasonal candy is on clearance, and el Dia de los Muertos is underway. That can only mean one thing: November is here once again, and that means National Novel Writing Month is back. Longtime readers may be getting deja vu looking at this title. However, it’s no mistake. I will once…
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