How I do my computing

Hardware

I have many computers in my possession, many old laptops which I have collected over the years. However, I use only three computers for the most part.

• I own a PC which I have upgraded over the course of my life. I do a lot of my work on my PC.
• My main laptop is a second hand PC Master laptop, I use it mainly when I want to work in bed or at a friends house.
• My second laptop is a librebooted Lenovo Thinkpad T460 which I purchased off of ebay with Libreboot on it. Laptops/Desktops which you can Libreboot/GNUboot are rather cheap. I take this laptop out in public since I doubt anybody will steal it and if they did I would not mind too much.

Window manager

Over my GNU/Linux journey I have tested and messed about with many desktop environments. My favourite tilling window manager is DWM since it is simple and does everything I need, and my favourite desktop environment would be MATE or XFCE. However, I mainly just use DWM.

Display manager

If you are unaware, the display manager is what your login screen is and it allows you to have a more comfortable and clean experience. However, for myself I prefer being loaded into the TTY and then launching my desktop environment with a xinitrc.

GNU/Linux distro I use

Software I use

I will not list all of the software I use, but I mainly use the following:

• Neovim as my text editor and programming environment
• Librewolf for my web browser of choice. I sometimes also use GNU icecat.
• Heroic as my games launcher
• GUIX package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution I use