Installing arch linux macbook pro
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I then proceeded to configure the laptop the way I wanted, for example installing Iosevska, Zenburn and using them throughout. I also made a few customization to Alacritty, the terminal emulator I found after installing i3wm. I’m planning to keep using Tmux as my development environment and i3wm at the core for all other applications. I fixed this by changing the i3wm configuration file at ~/.config/i3/config. After a few days, I had no problem getting used to it except for the choice of using j,k,l, to move left, down, up and right respectively, instead of the usual vim-like h,j,k,l. Of course I’m happy to see simplicity as a guiding principle and I’m going with it. i3wm is instead so lightweight it reminds me of Tmux.
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The last time I had to pick a graphical environment on Linux it was Xfce because Gnome or KDE were so heavy and painful to use.
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It’s already great that I don’t have to partition the disk! The documentation suggests a tiling manager called i3wm, which I’ve never heard of but I’m happy to use. So my adventure starts from a blinking prompt and some internal documentation that JUXT provides to set up a basic working environment. The new laptop arrives with Arch Linux pre-installed and a root account. To begin with, I’m currently writing from my spare laptop, a mid-2010 MacBook that works pretty decently considering its age.