Disabled new Linux user looking for advice

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  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • remap the key bindings in your .zshrc. ideally build up a lot of key bindings that work for you.

  • Webmin

    Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

  • The only suggestions I can think of that might help you are: - Cockpit: a web-based interface for administering your system - Webmin: another web-interface for administering systems - Using tab autocomplete in the terminal to reduce how much you need to actually type - Fish shell: an alternative to bash and other terminal interpreters with better autocompletion and autosuggestion/predictive text features.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • The only suggestions I can think of that might help you are: - Cockpit: a web-based interface for administering your system - Webmin: another web-interface for administering systems - Using tab autocomplete in the terminal to reduce how much you need to actually type - Fish shell: an alternative to bash and other terminal interpreters with better autocompletion and autosuggestion/predictive text features.

  • marker

    The terminal command palette (by pindexis)

  • bang

    Text snippets on the command line. (by jimmycuadra)

  • boom

    Motherfucking TEXT SNIPPETS! On the COMMAND LINE! (by holman)

  • mcfly

    Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

  • You could also use McFly with FIsh o any other shell to fly through your history, it replaces the control+r of your shell.

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • zsh-autosuggestions

    Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  • autocompletion

  • streamdeck-ui

    A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.

  • Then you could use a midi drum pad or a stream deck to trigger your hotkey combos.

  • ideavim

    IdeaVim – A Vim engine for JetBrains IDEs

  • Then for an editor I'd suggest intellij idea, it has GUI wizards for a lot of things. vim probably has a place in there to make things faster or more ergonomic when editing text. Plus you'd ideally also have a speach to text engine that can run in your ide, making it so you have to type less.

  • vosk-api

    Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

  • There are also speech to text options for linux, for example vosk-api which you might be able to use in combination with the above.

  • i3-parkinson

    An article by /u/EllaTheCat about using i3 with and because of Parkinsons's Disease (PD)

  • EllaTheCat has Parkinsons, and created an i3 config specifically geared towards their symptoms (it's not a generic 'Parkinsons solution').

  • speechd-el

    Emacs speech and Braille output interface

  • Then there's also stuff like Emacspeak and speechd-el from which you can essentially manage your whole system.

  • zoxide

    A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

  • zsh-autocomplete

    🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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