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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.</li> +<li><a href="https://alpinelinux.org/">Alpine Linux</a>, +the featherlight distribution powering this server.</li> +<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/">Void Linux</a>, +another nice lightweight distribution. It has +a great package management system with good +support for both binary packages and +<a href="https://gentoo.org/">Gentoo</a>-style +customizable source builds.</li> +<li><a href="https://i3wm.org/">i3</a>, a mature, lightweight, +responsive tiling window manager without all the fuss. +I'll move to its successor-in-progress +<a href="https://swaywm.org/">Sway</a> as soon as I find it mature enough.</li> +<li><a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a>, which I use instead of its +venerable ancestor <a href="https://www.vim.org/">Vim</a> because +it's faster, cleaner, and more future-facing +(<a href="https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/">source</a>). +With plugins, of course: +<ul> +<li><a href="https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug">vim-plug</a> +for simple and effective plugin management.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/wincent/terminus">terminus</a> +to noticeably improve integration with the window manager.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/joshdick/onedark.vim">onedark.vim</a>, +because it looks great and is easy on the eyes.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim">lightline.vim</a> +for no real reason. Just eye candy I guess.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot">vim-polyglot</a>, +because its syntax definitions are much better.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak">vim-sneak</a> +to make movement less of a hassle.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty">Alacritty</a> as terminal emulator, +for its speed, minimalism, ease to configure, and native Wayland support. +I used to use <a href="https://st.suckless.org/">st</a>, +but it was too annoying to reconfigure.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/eXeC64/imv">imv</a>, +a command-line image viewer that I've found to be +much simpler and snappier than its more popular cousin +<a href="https://feh.finalrewind.org/">feh</a>.</li> +<li><a href="https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura">zathura</a>, +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 <a href="https://mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a>.</li> +<li><a href="https://mpv.io/">mpv</a>, a great terminal-friendly media player. +If you have <a href="https://youtube-dl.org/">youtube-dl</a> installed +you can watch videos you would otherwise need a web browser for.</li> +<li><a href="https://nginx.org/">nginx</a>, +the most popular HTTP server in the world. +And for good reason: it's lightweight, fast, secure, +flexible and straightforward to configure.</li> +<li><a href="https://www.getzola.org/">Zola</a> to generate static webpages, +including the one you're reading right now.</li> +<li><a href="https://www.qemu.org/">QEMU</a>, +the Swiss army knife of emulation, and a damn fast one at that, +albeit with absolutely terrible documentation. +My old Windows launch script is <a href="../winvm.sh">here</a>.</li> +<li>The <a href="https://www.musl-libc.org/">musl</a> C standard library, +the only one that remembers it's supposed to stick to the +official specification rather than pursuing every crazy idea.</li> +<li><a href="https://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> bundles the +most important Unix tools into one portable ELF.</li> +<li><a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>, +a nice Unix service manager and init system. +I used it in my now long-abandoned +<a href="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/index.html">LFS</a> installation.</li> +<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/doas">doas</a>, +sudo for the 21st century, this time actually configurable.</li> +</ul> + + +</div> +<hr> +© "Prefetch". 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