Something that I still don’t have a clear story for is the calendar: I’m using a couple of Google calendars from the browser, but I’d rather have a native desktop solution.
Arch linux macbook 2010 install#
For this reason I preferred to install both Slack and Discord from their AUR packages. When I have the choice between using the same application in the browser or native, I normally prefer the desktop version. I installed both Firefox and Chrome (which I tend to use for different use cases) and decided to try using Thunderbird to manage email (I will eventually move to Mutt I think, but I need some time to absorb all the other changes first).
It should be probably clear by now that I use Vim and that influences many of the choices you see here. I then proceeded to configure the laptop the way I wanted, for example installing Iosevska, Zenburn and using them throughout. I also made a few customization to Alacritty, the terminal emulator I found after installing i3wm. I’m planning to keep using Tmux as my development environment and i3wm at the core for all other applications. I fixed this by changing the i3wm configuration file at ~/.config/i3/config. After a few days, I had no problem getting used to it except for the choice of using j,k,l, to move left, down, up and right respectively, instead of the usual vim-like h,j,k,l. Of course I’m happy to see simplicity as a guiding principle and I’m going with it. i3wm is instead so lightweight it reminds me of Tmux. The last time I had to pick a graphical environment on Linux it was Xfce because Gnome or KDE were so heavy and painful to use. It’s already great that I don’t have to partition the disk! The documentation suggests a tiling manager called i3wm, which I’ve never heard of but I’m happy to use.
So my adventure starts from a blinking prompt and some internal documentation that JUXT provides to set up a basic working environment. The new laptop arrives with Arch Linux pre-installed and a root account. To begin with, I’m currently writing from my spare laptop, a mid-2010 MacBook that works pretty decently considering its age.
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