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-# Recommended software
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-* [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/),
- the no-nonsense Linux distribution. It's not perfect,
- but it has the best reward-to-effort ratio for me.
- Mainly its spectacular wealth of available packages
- (11000 main + 53000 AUR!) make it the king.
-* [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/),
- the featherlight distribution powering this server.
-* [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org/),
- another nice lightweight distribution. It has
- a great package management system with good
- support for both binary packages and
- [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org/)-style
- customizable source builds.
-* [i3](https://i3wm.org/), a mature, lightweight,
- responsive tiling window manager without all the fuss.
- I'll move to its successor-in-progress
- [Sway](https://swaywm.org/) as soon as I find it mature enough.
-* [Neovim](https://neovim.io/), which I use instead of its
- venerable ancestor [Vim](https://www.vim.org/) because
- it's faster, cleaner, and more future-facing
- ([source](https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/)).
- With plugins, of course:
- + [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug)
- for simple and effective plugin management.
- + [terminus](https://github.com/wincent/terminus)
- to noticeably improve integration with the window manager.
- + [onedark.vim](https://github.com/joshdick/onedark.vim),
- because it looks great and is easy on the eyes.
- + [lightline.vim](https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim)
- for no real reason. Just eye candy I guess.
- + [vim-polyglot](https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot),
- because its syntax definitions are much better.
- + [vim-sneak](https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak)
- to make movement less of a hassle.
-* [Alacritty](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) as terminal emulator,
- for its speed, minimalism, ease to configure, and native Wayland support.
- I used to use [st](https://st.suckless.org/),
- but it was too annoying to reconfigure.
-* [imv](https://github.com/eXeC64/imv),
- a command-line image viewer that I've found to be
- much simpler and snappier than its more popular cousin
- [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/).
-* [zathura](https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura),
- a fantastic modular viewer for PDFs and similar formats.
- It remembers your position in a document after closing or reloading,
- which is great when using LaTeX, and the main reason
- I prefer it over [MuPDF](https://mupdf.com/).
-* [mpv](https://mpv.io/), a great terminal-friendly media player.
- If you have [youtube-dl](https://youtube-dl.org/) installed
- you can watch videos you would otherwise need a web browser for.
-* [nginx](https://nginx.org/),
- the most popular HTTP server in the world.
- And for good reason: it's lightweight, fast, secure,
- flexible and straightforward to configure.
-* [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/) to generate static webpages,
- including the one you're reading right now.
-* [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/),
- the Swiss army knife of emulation, and a damn fast one at that,
- albeit with absolutely terrible documentation.
- My old Windows launch script is [here](../winvm.sh).
-* The [musl](https://www.musl-libc.org/) C standard library,
- the only one that remembers it's supposed to stick to the
- official specification rather than pursuing every crazy idea.
-* [BusyBox](https://busybox.net/) bundles the
- most important Unix tools into one portable ELF.
-* [s6](https://skarnet.org/software/s6/),
- a nice Unix service manager and init system.
- I used it in my now long-abandoned
- [LFS](http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/index.html) installation.
-* [doas](https://man.openbsd.org/doas),
- sudo for the 21st century, this time actually configurable.