Uses

This is a list of the hardware, software, and services I personally use.

Last updated July 10, 2024

Hardware

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• Laptop T14s gen3 - Running Fedora Workstation 40, kmonad for keyboard remapping, SSH into everything.
• Desktop Ryzen 9 5900x, Corsair 32GB RAM, 3080 TUF - Running Fedora Workstation 40
• Keyboard Chocofi 36 key
• Microphone Shure SM7B
• Interface Audient iD4
• Mic stand Ulanzi MT-28 Carbon Tripod
• Trackball MX Ergo
• Camera Sony A7iv with Sigma 24-70 and Sigma 16-28 lenses
• Phone Samsung S24
• E-Reader Kobo Clara HD

The Core system

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I take a Fedora Workstation installation and build out from there to create a development, video editing, and writing environment that permits me to create out of the box.

This setup is inspired by my own use case, and should generally fit most people’s needs, as it will include office software, text editing, file manager, video editor, audio editor, and installed tooling for the development stack I use (mainly docker, git, golang, postgres, and other helpful programs.)

This builds on the Zen System series, automating much of the installation and letting us hit the ground running.

For those that are coming from Windows after the fiasco(s) of late, this is a great way to get rolling!

Programs

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• Hyprland - Environment

  • Hypridle
  • Hyprlock
  • Hyprpicker

• Kitty - Terminal

  • ZSH - Shell

    • Starship - Prompt
    • OhmyZSH - Plugin management
    • FZF - Fuzzy finder. I have various custom scripts in my .zshrc
    • ZSH Autosuggestions - Autosuggestions
    • ZSH Autocomplete - Autocompletion
    • FZF Tab - Tab search for cd
    • ZSH Syntax Highlighting - Syntax Highlighting in shell
    • Eza - ls replacement
    • Zoxide - smarter way to cd
    • Bat - cat replacement
    • RG - ripgrep
    • Nerd-sourcecodepro-font - Font

  • Tmux - Terminal multiplexer

    • TPM - Tmux plugin management
    • Tmux Sensible

• Swaybg - Wayland wallpapers

• Waybar - Status bar

• Dunst - Notifications

• Wofi - Launcher

• NWG-Dock-Hyprland - Dock

• Tessen with Pass - Password management

• MPV and FFMPEG - Video tooling

• MPD with NCMPCPP, MPC and Cava - Music streaming

• Thunar - Graphical File manager

• OBS Studio - Broadcasting/Recording

• Gnome - As fallback environment

• Newsboat - RSS and Newsfeed

• Firefox - Browser

  • Plugins:
    • Vimium FF
    • uBlockOrigin
    • Privacy Badger
    • Violentmonkey

• Brave - Alternate Browser

• Zathura with zathura-pdf-mupdf - PDF and Ebook reader

• Thunderbird and AERC - Email clients

• QBittorrent - Torrent client

• Shotcut - Video editing

• Libreoffice - Office Suite

• GIMP - Image manipulation

• Telegram - Chat software

• Blueman - Bluetooth management

Tooling

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• Neovim - Editor with various built in tools for writing and programming

  • NVChad - Base configuration
  • Plugins:
    • Zen Mode
    • Conform
    • Indent Blank Line
    • Noice with Notify
    • Dadbod with completion and UI
    • Harpoon
    • Mason
    • Obsidian
    • Hop
    • Beancount
    • Orgmode

• Docker - Containerization

  • Lazydocker - Lazygit for docker
  • Docker Compose -
  • BuildX -

• Git

  • Lazygit - Easily manage git status/push/pulls

• Golang - Pretty much everything I build is written in Go.

• HTTPie - REST Client

Flatpaks

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• Signal
• Spotify
• Obsidian