This is a list and a sort of review of the programs I use or have used. Contrary to what the path says I will also list massive soywares that no one should use or simply programs that I didn’t really like.

Linux distro

I’ve used a few distros and unlike other Lincucks I never really “distro-hopped”. I began with the typical jewbuntu as I grew tired of wincucks. I used it for at least six months and occasionally broke it. At the time I did not use CLI programs much. I don’t remember much else besides being annoyed by the gnome filemanager for not letting me type a path and liking the preinstalled calculator (I’ve heard of a “galculator” but I don’t know if there is also a “gnome calculator” and whether they are different or not) becuase it let you type expressions and the functions had a familiar syntax and it let you have high precision. (I’ve now replaced this with the pytard interpreter and mpmath for the most part, though I have not done anything requiring high precision or I have been less autistic about “muh precision” lately. )

That was on a craptop. Eventually I got a proper desktop PC. I tried garuda for some months. It advertises itself as a “gamer” distro. It is also pretty normie-friendly. The install ISO boots up to a window linking to some quite useful tools such as a grub reinstaller, snapshot restorer, and of course the installer. As for the actual distro, it has some mac-like rice by default. I don’t remember what I did but once the rice got reset and I had the default KDE rice. I’ve had other issues, such as the pacman being configured to delete old snapshots but mounting the snapshots partition as read-only and getting six gorillion errors from rm and having to wait like a minute after installing a soyware. Also I might have caused this accidentally but I had screen tearing and frameskip on KDE. I eventually fixed it by changing the compositor settings so maybe I had broken it in the first place by touching those settings. Another issue I’ve had is that the soystemd auto-mount stopped working after I used it with other DEs/WMs. In conclusion, I don’t know if I can recommend it because of those issues, despite it being so normie-friendly otherwise. I haven’t heard of others having these issues so maybe I broke it somehow but other than the tearing and frameskip I was not directly responsible for these issues and it is unacceptable that they occur in a normie-oriented troonix.

Currently I use artix. It’s arch but without soystemd. If you break your first install and you have never installed arch (manually) before then it is probably a good thing anyway because you might not have installed it “correctly” the first time around. In my case, the first time I installed it I did not know that the installation ISO came with connman preinstalled and I wrote a really hacky script to connect to wifi:

killall wpa_supplicant;
rfkill unblock wlan;
ip link set wlan0 up;
wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf;
dhcpcd;

Again it was really hacky and sometimes I had to run it twice but ultimately it worked. But once I learned how to use connmanctl and that it came preinstalled it became much easier and faster to install artix. And eventually I wrote some scripts to add the universe repo and to enable the arch repos as it is very tedious to manually type URLs in. I’m going to sound like a faggit consoomer for making an analogy to playing a videogame but it’s like playing The Wonderful 101: the entire first time is the tutorial. Also I was supposed to write my opinions on artix and now I’ve went on a spergout. Anyway what I like about artix (and I suppose arch too, but I’ve never tried it) is that you get a very minimal system and then you can install whatever you want, instead of having a bloated “fresh install”. I chose runit for my init system. I have not tried the other options artix offers but I am really content with runit. It is really easy to write its scripts (ordinary shellscripts) and muh pee cee boots up really fast. There is not much else to say about artix. It simply does not get in the way.

Also, I would not call it a linux distro or even linux at all even if it technically it is, but I use an android phone.

DE/WM

My first DE was gnome. It’s a bloated DE that tried to imitate the mac UI. Now it seems like it tries to make its own style for tablets. If you have read this far you are probably already familiar with gnome and I don’t have anything to say that you have not heard already.

I used KDE when I tried garuda. It’s a DE that is less bloated than gnome but still quite bloated. It can be riced much but I’ve never tried to rice it. By default it has wincucks-like rice. I’ve had issues with the startmenu-clone not being invoked when pressing the wincucks key. Also eventually the taskbar began to take eons to appear for some reason. This got me in the habit of launching programs from the terminal. However you will quickly fill your alt-tab menu with terminals if you do this.

I’ve tried and currently use Enlightenment. I hear that it is very riceable but it too I have not tried to rice. There are some sites to download themes but the download buttons don’t work, so I’m stuck with the default theme. It’s not bad but one of the strong aspects of E is supposed to be its riceability. Apparently its developer is a graphics and optimization schizo so it’s really lightweight. It’s quite nice once you get used to it and I don’t see many other lincucks using it.

For a while I “‘fell’ for the ‘suckless meme’” and used DWM. It’s a tiling WM that lets you put windows in floating mode (like the typical “normie” WM). I like “muh minimalism” despite having a steamnigger-tier PC but it gets boring to search for patches to add the functionality you want. Especially when you have to log in every time you want to test it out. Luke Smith’s build has a button or dmenu entry to relaunch it, even without having to log in again, I think, but I don’t know what the patch is called. I might just try his build someday. It looks nice other than for having the (((pulseaudio))) bindings that I’m sure can be easily removed anyway. Finally, one thing I really like about DWM is that it doesn’t mess with your keystrokes if they are not bound to anything. When I used it I could have my musicplayer use just the volume keys to control the volume (it does its own software volume). With KDE and even Enlighenment, I have to use something like shift+vol (up|dn).

Media players

For video I just use mpv just because all other weebs use it.

For music I use deadbeef. It’s like a clone of foobar2000, one of the better wincuckwares.

Webbrowser

I use librewolf and have used unjewgled chrome. Librewolf is to trannyfox as unjewgled chrome is to chrome.

Texteditor

I have used gedit (lol) back when I used jewbuntu.

I have also used and quite like kate. However, ever since I installed artix I have not reinstalled it out of laziness and also because it would also require much other KDE bloat, so

I’ve just been using vim. I have not done any configuration on it. I would actually be fine with plain vi if the backspace key worked as you would expect of a computer (it works as you would expect of a typewriter).

I have never used e-macs.

Sound server

I’ve used pipe-wire. I like that you can control it using alsamixer. I don’t like that it requires d-bus. Still much better than (((pulse))) though.

I’ve also tried sndio but there is not a single troonix program that supports it. I want to see if I can get alsa-sndio to work.

Usually I just use bare ALSA. I don’t need “muh mixing” but there are times when I want software volume.