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This page describes the setup that I use in my desktop experience while describing the decisions that were made while selecting the components. It is irregularly updated.

OS: Arch Linux⌗

Arch is a fantastic Linux distribution that’s pretty lean and mean for all sorts of use cases. It’s primary advantage to me is the fact that I have to perform least amount of configuration, in the case where I ever need to reinstall my system. Quite fortunately, it has rarely broken down on me.

Desktop⌗

WM: BSPWM⌗

BSPWM is the most vanilla WM experience you can get, in my opinion. I do not care much for the modularity aspect of it. I love i3 as well, but prefer to stick with BSPWM, because it feels more stable.

I have a very terminal oriented workflow and prefer to do everything in terminal. 1 window per workspace works for me.

Some components that I use along with BSPWM:

Component Software
Bar polybar
Terminal alacritty + fish shell + tmux
Notifications dunst
Image viewer feh
Music mpd + ncmpcpp
PDFs zathura
Email Neomutt

Text editor: Neovim⌗

Vim fits my terminal oriented workflow really well. I use NeoVim’s built-in LSP.

Writing⌗

  1. Assignments and other academic material
    $\LaTeX$ is my personal favorite. I use the VimTeX plugin + Zathura. It produces very clean and beautiful PDFs that are otherwise very missed.

  2. Notes
    Casual notes are preferred while learning stuff. I take such notes in Markdown. Simple and universal.

Obiter dictum: I love both markdown and Org-mode. I alternate between them from time to time, preferring markdown for smaller files and Org-mode when I want to build a knowledge base. However, I have not fully switched to Emacs and I prefer other tools for other functions.