My setup

This page is more focused on my software setup.

Operating System

I use Fedora. I use exclusively GNU/Linux at home since 2020. Besides Fedora, I've had some impulsive distro hopping moments but only used seriously Mint, Arch and Fedora (from what I remember). All my experiences with Ubuntu failed at a certain point for some reason, it is frustrating distribution.

GNU/Linux is a very accessible way of discovering a lot on systems and have some fun. The first distro you should try is Linux Mint. The first thing you should learn is that the CLI is the right way of doing stuff, start seeing using a graphical interface as doing some workaround. The second thing you should learn is that you may break your system with a line.

An example of this. Let's say you have an HDD and a flash drive connected to your computed and you want to prepare an installation of Arch. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are the two devices. Probably, sda is your HDD. If you type:

They call dd Disk Destroyer, but it only does one very simple thing and that may be seen as innofensive: it copies. This above command says: copy the contents of the Input File (if=...) to Output File (of=...). The "sudo" uses the super user permissions. So what was supposed to be "copy the Arch Linux image to by flash drive" became "copy the Arch Linux Image to my HDD" and there goes your system. That's a golden lesson.

Graphical Environment

Currently I'm using i3. I don't like i3. The management of awesome and dwm is a lot better because you can move and navigate your windows without thinking "I want to move down" or "I want to move up". However, it's an issue of "sane defaults" for me. I think I'm going to migrate to dwm.

My mentality is not so much "customize my system" but "using programs I like". You don't need to dedicate days to customize and get what you want. Atleast I think not. I think you can just install programs that are sufficient and change some intuitive settings.