dotfiles

05/06/25

5 min read

I stopped using Windows in my first year in college. It felt like it limited my ability to be productive on my own computer.

I started using Arch Linux with a Hyprland rice but I completely broke it by updating my system. That’s when I tried out every distro under the sun. Void, NixOS, Mint, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.

I could not forget the awesome experience of using a tiling window manager like Hyprland. I started looking for alternatives that were less bleeding edge and more pratical for everyday work. I simply could not risk breaking my system as a student.

This led to me trying out a bunch of window managers and desktop environments. My favorites are Gnome (still run it on my desktop), i3 and bspwm.

My current setup (that I have been using for at least a couple of months now) is based on Debian and uses the bspwm window manager.

You can check out my dotfiles on github.

Here is a list of some of the tools that I use every day.

And here are some screenshots of my setup.

Setup while writing this post Writing an old version of this post

Setup while editing code Editing the PanelController in my MVC project