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Arch based kde distro that has has an easy installer, looks really pretty and is well put togther and has packages compiled for the latest instruction set so I get a 15-30% performance boost without having to change hardware. Just a really well put together linux distro with all the benefits of arch (bleeding edge and most things available as packages or in the aur), plus a few extras.
- WSL: I had to do some work on windows boxes this years and was pretty impressed I could get Arch running with my usual setup and have extremely easy communication between Windows and the Linux env. - Buku: Continues to be a fantastic little library for bookmarks in your terminal. - NNN: A very extendable file browser in the terminal. It's become an easy way to wire up actions to files (like upload this file to a st…
Text editing: Geany + snippets calling various scripts & programs I wrote Entertainment: VLC followed by QMMP File management: PCManFM, especially for viewing PDF covers at beautiful sizes Phone: QuickEdit+, Spiro (fidget toy), SmallBASIC (+AppImages on desktop), OsmAnd- (hiking) Terminal: find . -iname " blah " (find a file quickly. find in general was amazing to me in 2022, with -mtime, -size, and other flags) du -…
one combination I came to really love this year is babashka ( https://github.com/babashka/babashka ) + websocat ( https://github.com/vi/websocat ). I wrote about a method of live web programming with this pair at https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/a%20technique%20for... babashka isn't strictly necessary; you can also pipe plain text, but pushing hiccup expressions to the browser DOM from the REPL with instant f…