How do you use Trisquel?
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Hello / Hola / Hallo :-D
nothing special to see here, I just wanted to show off how I use Trisquel on my computer. As you can see from the screenshot included, it is not a super powerfull machine, but still capable of everything I need from it.
And what's that?
Well, I use Emacs a lot (not in the screenshot), but for that, I build my own version from "stabilized" sources of devel (whenever they mark it as a new milestone), currently 28.0.91 - I use it for RSS feeds, maintaining my poorly designed website, IRC, scripting, file management and surprise surprise.. for text editing :-D
As my terminal of choice, I use sakura. It's not something super minimal or special in any way, I just got used to that terminal emulator, so I use it everywhere. tcsh as my shell of choice, both for interactive and scripting, also built from source.
As a browser, Abrowser. But I also have links with gui enabled built from source for light browsing. Qwant as my search engine. I know that it is not the most private engine, but for me, a good compromise of "not being Google" and still having reasonably good results and also EU located.
All of that, inside of a ratpoison session. I have a mouse, I like my mouse (it's a cheap vertical one, but really really usable, no issues there) but still, it is refreshing to only use my keyboard (ratpoison + emacs make a great combo fot this).
Currently on 4:3 monitor for a few days, but otherwise a widescreen is connected, allowing me to use (similar to the screenshot) layout of two frames horizontally, one with a browser, one with other stuff (switching between terminal, emacs, ...
And how do YOU use your Trisquel?
P.S.: if there is a similar topic I missed, feel free to delete this one (admins)
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Hello pkotrcka,
- For text editing I use: vim, pandoc to convert Markdown files into .pdf;
- for emailing: neomutt, msmtp, protonmail bridge (and vim);
- for passwords: keepassxc;
- for backups: backintime;
- for video and audio files: vlc;
- for web browsing: Tor, and I recently switched from DuckDuckgo to https://metager.org. I like that the legal entity controlling metaGer is a non-profit organisation, so there is no risk that the entity (and the data) gets acquired, whereas Duckduckgo as well as Qwant are controlled by a Limited entity which can be acquired (and DDG is "partly"[2] proprietary).
[1] an "e.V." more precisely: https://metager.org/#story-ngo
[2] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/community/open-source/
metager is also great, yes yes... their order of results is sometimes even better than with other search engines.
I have a Trisquel desktop mainly for web browsing and budgeting, other basic personal tasks. In the future I am trying to move my gaming system over to Trisquel as I gravitate more to FOSS games but am a ways off from having that as a daily driver. I still have a lot of closed source games to play through and I don't want to pollute a Trisquel system with them as well as not being able to play some of them without a beefy GPU that wouldn't work on Trisquel. I use Cool Retro Term as my terminal and Abrowser as my browser. Libre Office is my main program I use daily as well as Plank and KeePassXC.
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