Using Arch Linux

• starship

  299 40,933 9.7 Rust

  ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

  

For the prompt on my terminal, I decided to use something called Starship Prompt. It is an excellent cross-platform prompt which is really colorful and gives you a lot of data about the current directory you are in, which I find very helpful, especially for git. It is really fast (it’s written in Rust, which is a speedy programming language). You can find more about the prompt on their website.

• i3

  200 9,090 7.8 C

  A tiling window manager for X11

  

dwm is a bit different than another tiling window manager called i3 because you edit the source code (which is a header file utilized by the C language) directly to tweak and customize it.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• dwm

  22 0 6.8 C

  LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm) (by lev-linux)

  

Now I had to get a “GUI” up and running. I had used KDE and GNOME on my old laptop before but I wanted to try something called a tiling window manager. If you didn’t know, tiling window managers basically automatically resize windows based on available space, so instead of having a bunch of windows overlapping each other like macOS or Windows, all of them are on the screen and visible to the user. For this, I was going to use a tiling window manager called dwm .

• archweb

  395 302 7.4 Python

  Arch Linux website code

  

I had a choice of Debian based distros or Arch based distros. The former being stuff like Ubuntu, Debian, PopOS, Linux Mint etc. etc. For the latter, I had options like Arch, Manjaro, Arco and Garuda.

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